Object Details
- Description
- This grand piano was made by Steinway & Sons in New York, New York in 1892. It was played by composer and pianist, Ignacy Jan Paderewski during his first U.S. tour in seventy-five concerts from1892-1893. This piano is serial number 717227 and has a compass of AAA-c5, repetition action, layers of felt hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, 3 pedals: una corda, sustention, and dampers, one-piece cast-iron frame, cross-strung, and an ebonized wood case.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
- maker
- Steinway & Sons
- date made
- 1892
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steinway & Sons
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- felt (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 290 cm x 152 cm x 1010 cm; 114 3/16 in x 59 27/32 in x 397 5/8 in
- overall: 37 3/4 in x 54 in x 90 in; 95.885 cm x 137.16 cm x 228.6 cm
- Object Name
- piano
