GRAND PIANO
straight-strung
230-stringed (four 2-string
wound choirs, seventy-four
3-string unwound choirs)
78-keyed (keyboard extent is
С of the contra octave — f of the
four-line octave)
J.-A. H. Tischner’s Factory.
Russia, St. Petersburg, 1830s
“A. Tischner. / St Petersburg.” — an inscription on engraving by black dye on an oval plate of gilded bronze;
“2554.” — a handwritten inscription by black dye on the beam of the case under the soundboard.
2374×1217×925
Wood, metal, bone, fabric, felt, leather
1902, transferred from the Grand Peterhof Palace
Stock number: 16516/109

The frame is wooden, reinforced with 4 steel plate bars. The bottom surface of the case is open — there is no improvised soundboard (see 62)




