upright piano

Classification: 3 Chordophones / 31 Simple chordophones or zithers / 314 Board zithers / 314.1 True board zithers / 314.1-4-8 True board zithers sounded by hammers or beaters, with keyboard

Piano maker: Arnold Fibiger

Date: ca. 1905

Village / Town: Kalisz

Country: Congress Kingdom of Poland / present-day Poland

Owner: Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, ul. Kościelna 1. Bought in 1992 from Teresa Wdowczyk from the Zmyślanka village

Inventory number: MHP 32/I

Description: Arnold Fibiger? Walnut veneered, then repainted in black. Cross-, single-, double-, triple-strung. Full metal frame with hitch pin block’s armour. English repetition action with overdampers

Inscriptions: nameplate on the keyboard cover missing, 14424 pencilled on its back; 424 Th [?] / 8 [+] 12.12.05 penciled on the keyboard blocking slat; Schütze [?] Freund, 91819 stamped on the action frame; STEFAN KŁOS / Korektor Stroiciel stamped on the A₂ key lever; Grudzień 1964 written in pencil

Measurements: height 1280, width 1500, depth 340 (625) mm

Materials: wood, metal, ivory

Keyboard compass, stops: A₂-a⁴ – 7 octaves, two pedals – piano and dampers

Catalog card by: Benjamin Vogel

Bibliography: B. Vogel, Fortepian polski. Budownictwo fortepianów na ziemiach polskich od poł. XVIII w. do II wojny światowej, (Warszawa, 1995), pp. 214-17; B. Vogel, Polskie fortepiany XIX-XX w. Kolekcja Muzeum Historii Przemysłu  w Opatówku, (Opatówek,1994); K. Rottermund, Budownictwo instrumentów muzycznych na terenie Wielkopolski w XIX i 1. połowie XX wieku, (Poznań, 2002), pp. 102-06

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