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	1889年，89.4.2812
策展部门	乐器（Musical Instruments）
创作者	Loud & Brothers【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1820 - 公元 1830
创作地区	美国, 宾夕法尼亚, 费城（United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia）
分类	齐瑟敲击钢琴（Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano）
尺寸	Instrument: 174厘米 x 73厘米 x 39厘米 Legs (X4): 53厘米 (and thread) x 12厘米 x 12厘米
介绍（中）	这架钢琴是由久负盛名的费城公司Loud&；兄弟们。钢琴制造业是19世纪美国的主导产业之一，因为不断增长的中产阶级为自己的家庭购买乐器。美国许多城市都以蓬勃发展的工业而自豪，有一段时间Loud&；Brothers是美国领先的公司之一，与波士顿的Chicking和纽约的steinway并列。这架精心装饰的方形钢琴在装饰处理上与Loud&；Brothers也在The Met的收藏中（1976.317.1）。技术说明：矩形桃花心木盖子和红木（外部）和缎面木（内部）贴面表壳，带圆角，饰有金边（局部修饰）和花卉、棘皮和卷轴作品；四个弯曲的深芦苇腿上有黄铜脚轮和装饰的黄铜环；表壳下面的雕刻镀金卷轴，紧挨着隐藏抽屉的前腿；镀金金属饰条；指南针FF-f4（73个键），象牙色意外，"第五条腿"上的减震器踏板（缺失），它升起了减震器；用鸟瞰枫木贴面的拼块；重螺纹穿孔和未穿孔的调谐销；英制双动，带中间杆和单擒纵机构；曲柄式阻尼器；双线贯穿始终，最低八个音符缠绕。
介绍（英）	This piano was made by the venerable Philadelphia company Loud & Brothers. Piano manufacturing was one of the leading industries in nineteenth century America as the growing middle-class purchased instruments for their homes. Many U.S. cities boasted a thriving industry, and for a time Loud & Brothers was one of the country's leading firms alongside Chickering in Boston and steinway in New York. This elaborately decorated square piano is similar in its decorative treatment to an upright piano by Loud & Brothers also in The Met's collection (1976.317.1). Technical description: Rectangular mahogany lid and rosewood (exterior) and satinwood (interior) veneered case with rounded corners, decorated with gilt borders (retouched in spots) and floral, acanthus, and scroll work; rests on four turned and deeply reeded legs with brass casters and decorated brass rings; carved, gilded scrolls below case next to front legs concealing drawers; gilded metal moldings; compass FF-f4 (73 keys), ivory accidentals, damper pedal on "fifth leg" (missing), which raised dampers; pinblock veneered with bird's-eye maple; heavily threaded pierced and unpierced tuning pins; English double action with intermediate lever and single escapement; crank-type dampers; double-strung throughout, lowest eight notes wound.