Historical piano collection 2011
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Inventory number 8
Julius Blüthner,
Leipzig 1865
Fortepiano
Manufacturer’s label:
Blüthner
Case:
Polished palisander veneer.
Body measurements: 204 x 137 = L x W.
Keyboard:
Extent A
2
- a
4
.
Lower keys ivory,
upper keys ebony.
Action:
Vienna action,
hammerheads leather on felt core,
frame damping.
Metal shoe,
three lengthwise metal braces screwed in.
Switching system:
Lyra with two bronze pedals:
$ Forte
$ Shifting
The instrument was discovered while a
villa in Berlin-Lichterfelde was being reno-
vated and rescued from its certain ending
at a garbage dump.
Ruin carefully restored in 1995
by Peter Zehmisch, Hamburg,
and Gerd Sühring, Aukrug.
Forte pianos
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