Object Details
- Description
- This square piano was made by Alpheus Babcock for John G. Klemm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around 1829-1832. Babcock worked for Klemm in Philadelphia from 1829-1832. It has been suggested that, because the serial number of this piano suggests a date before Babcock left Boston, he might have made this piano for Klemm before 1829. The piano is serial number 283, and has a compass of FF-c4, an English double action, leather-covered hammers, plain iron strings, FF-A# are iron wound and double-strung, with pins at rear, 2 pedals: damper and harmonic swell, a wood frame with a mahogany and rosewood veneered case.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Babcock, Alpheus
- date made
- 1831 - 1833
- Credit Line
- Hugo Worch
- Physical Description
- iron (plate material)
- Object Name
- piano
