“G. Fiedler” Factory, No. 1513.
Germany, Leipzig, 1860s

“1513 [surrounded by 4 medallions: a musette at the top, a portrait of Mozart on the right, the German State Emblem at the bottom, a portrait of Beethoven on the left]» — a stamp by black dye on the sound board;
“GUSTAV FIEDLER / [the German State Emblem] / LEIPZIG” — inlaid with brass in the lid.

1800×1318×915
Wood, metal, bone, fabric, felt

2005, transferred from M. G. Kullik
Stock number: 377/1000

The frame is wooden, reinforced with 5 steel plate bars. There are 2 pedals mounted in a “lyre”. The case veneering is tinted in imitation of rosewood. Spruce wood of the sound board is experimentally sawed up: the layers of the part, over which the strings from A of the double contra octave to c of the two-line octave are stretched, are perpendicular to the strings, and the layers of the remaining part are parallel to the strings.
The instrument belonged to N. A. Dudinskaya (1912–2003) and V. M. Chabukiani (1910–1992).