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Grand Piano

Made by Broadwood & Son, the case veneered on all sides with mahogany, cross-banded with satinwood and kingwood, stringed with holly and boxwood. The fascia and cheek-bands are of satin with similar stringing and kingwood cross-banded, an oval plaque of boxwood with linked decoration recording the maker.
Size: Length: 227 cm; Width: 107 cm; Height: 90 cm.

Artist / Maker: Broadwood & Son

Place: London

Object Type: piano

Period: George III

Broad Date: Late Georgian

Actual Date: 1794

Century: 18th century

Materials: Mahogany, Satinwood, Kingwood, Holly, Box Wood

Museum Accession Number: 1948/M.Instr.5