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Lot 88
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Kriegelstein & Arnaud (fl Paris, c1826 - 1850) A square piano Paris, 1834

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kriegelstein & Arnaud
  • A square piano
  • Inscribed on the soundboard Kriegelstein et Arnaud fabricants de pianos à Paris, Rue de Petites Écuries  N. 27, An 1834, also inscribed on a small inset plaque above the keyboard Medaille d’argent exposition 1834
  • Rosewood, brass, bone, ebony, root maple, ivory
  • Paris
the case of rosewood with extensive inlay of classical motifs and foliage in brass and bone with brass foliate beading around the lower edge and bone and ebony segmented beading around the upper edge, the lid inlaid with a central musical trophy, the faciaboard of root maple with boxwood stringing, the six and a half octave keyboard, CC to f4, with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals, three lyre-mounted pedals controlling moderator, damper lifts, the wrestplank and hitchpin rail overlaid with brass, rosewood dust cover, raised on four partly gadrooned baluster legs with gilt metal and ivory collars with stretchers each side mounted with lyres

Provenance

The ornate casework of this piano would suggest that it might indeed have been exhibited in the Exhibition de l’Industrie Francaise organised by the Baron Charles Dupin in 1834 (see http://www.oocities.org/threesixesinarow/1834.htm). The firm exhibited two pianos in this exhibition, one with their patent downstriking action (see Constant Pierre Les Facteur d’Instruments de Musique, p. 193) and one with a conventional action which could be this instrument.