方形钢琴 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	方形钢琴
品名（英）	Square Piano
入馆年号	1980年，1980.217
策展部门	乐器（Musical Instruments）
创作者	John Preston【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1790 - 公元 1800
创作地区	大不列颠联合王国, 英格兰, 伦敦（United Kingdom, England, London）
分类	齐瑟敲击钢琴（Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano）
尺寸	Case 长 (perpendicular to keyboard): 60.8 厘米 (24 英寸); 宽 (parallel to keyboard): 167.1 厘米 (65-7/8 英寸); 深 of case without lid: 22.7 厘米 (9 英寸); Total 高: 87,5 厘米 (34-1/2 英寸)
介绍（中）	普雷斯顿一家是伦敦的音乐出版商和乐器制造商。约翰·普雷斯顿（John Preston）于1770年代中期创立了该公司，并于1789年左右与他的儿子托马斯·普雷斯顿（Thomas Preston）一起加入。这是已知唯一以约翰·普雷斯顿的名字命名的乐器。它用家具制造商乔治·赫普尔怀特（George Hepplewhite）风格的缎木箱子制作精美。它不同寻常地装饰着彩绘花卉花环和串珠椭圆形的古董半身像。这幅画是瑞士新古典主义画家安吉莉卡·考夫曼（Angelica Kauffman）的风格，他在伦敦的职业生涯取得了成功。技术描述：长方形缎木七宝白表壳，带有狭窄的红木边缘和乌木和冬青条纹，外面涂有花卉花环和其他元素，包括（侧面）串珠椭圆形的古董半身像和（盖子上）2 个串珠椭圆形，两侧是中央矩形面板，顶部是骨灰盒两侧的狮鹫，椭圆形和中央面板描绘了妇女和男孩演奏各种古典乐器，所有这些都有点像安吉莉卡·考夫曼（Angelica Kauffmann）的风格：6个装饰的方形锥形腿上的脚轮上的表壳，腿上雕刻着离子大写字母，第7条腿（缺失）固定着阻尼踏板; 复合铭牌，中心部分由 2 块板水平连接，下板镶嵌椭圆形，整个部分两侧是布背卷轴面板，两端用不同的木材拼凑而成，铭牌与表壳其他地方的贴面和镶嵌不匹配; 名牌后面的折叠音乐架; 英式单动，无回检，阻尼线搁在短柱上，铰接在安装在键尾上方导轨上的杠杆上; 指南针FF-c4（68键），象牙色天然，带有普通木头，乌木盖意外（除了最低的实心红木）; 前 10 个键延伸到音板下方，锤子敲击音板后部的缝隙; 前 10 个音符无阻尼，最低 10 个音符，带开弦，双串通，右侧有调音针; 关键框架和铰链已更改，防尘罩丢失。
介绍（英）	The Preston's were music publishers and instrument makers in London. John Preston founded the firm in the mid 1770s and was joined by his son Thomas Preston around 1789. This is the only known instrument to bear John Preston's name. It is beautifully made with a case of satinwood in the style of furniture maker George Hepplewhite. It is unusually decorated with painted floral garlands and antique busts in beaded ovals. The painting is in the style of Angelica Kauffman, a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a succesful career in London. Technical description: Rectangular satinwood Hepplewhite case with narrow rosewood edging and ebony and holly striping painted outside with floral garlands and other elements including (on the sides) antique busts in beaded ovals and (on the lid) 2 beaded ovals flanking a central rectangular panel surmounted by griffons flanking an urn, the ovals and central panel depicting women and boys playing a variety of classical instruments, all painted somewhat in the style of Angelica Kauffmann: the case on 6 decorated square tapered legs on casters, the legs topped with carved Ionic capitals, with a 7th leg (missing) that held a damper pedal; composite nameboard with center section of 2 boards joined horizontally, with an inlaid oval on the lower board, the whole section flanked with clothbacked scrollwork panels, and the ends pieced out in a different wood, the nameboard not matching the veneers and inlay elsewhere on the case; a folding music rack behind the nameboard; English single action without back checks, the damper wires resting on short posts hinged to levers mounted on a rail over the keytails; compass FF-c4 (68 keys), ivory naturals with plain wood fronts, ebony-capped accidentals (except lowest of solid rosewood); top 10 keys extending below soundboard with hammers striking through a slit at rear of soundboard; top 10 notes undamped, lowest 10 notes with openwound strings, double strung throughout, tuning pins at right side; key frame and hinges altered and dust cover missing.