Object Details
- Dulcken, Jean-Louis
- Description (Brief)
- This grand piano was made by Jean-Louis Dulcken in Munich, Germany around 1790. There is an inscription in ink on the soundboard, discovered during a restoration in 1985, that reads “Dulchen in München.” The piano also has a spurious Stein label on the soundboard. The piano has a compass of FF-g3, Viennese action, with back checks on rail, deerskin on wood core hammers, brass and iron strings, 2 strings for each note, 2 knee levers: both damper lifters, wood frame, straight-strung, and a cherry veneer case.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hugo Worch
- 1785 - 1790
- ID Number
- MI.303537
- accession number
- 62559
- catalog number
- 303537
- Object Name
- piano
- Physical Description
- deerskin on wood (hammers material)
- brass; iron (strings material)
- wood (frame material)
- cherry veneer (case material)
- Place Made
- Germany: Bavaria, Munich
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Pianos
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_609320
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-6ab2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
