BROADWOOD GRAND PIANO
Inlaid with oval panels featuring muical instruments, foliage and flowers
Reconditioned, 1894, Broadwood grand piano with a fiddleback mahogany case and tapered fluted legs attached with a cross stretcher. Cabinet inlaid with oval panels featuring muical instruments and foliage and flowers and satinwood crossbanding and stringing accents.
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Price: £POA
Piano Details
- Brand: Broadwood
- Ref: 2801
- Serial Number: 44849
- Age: 1894
- Wood: Fiddleback Mahogany
- Finish: Polished
- Size [cm]: length: 200 width: 156
John Broadwood
John Broadwood (6 October 1732 – 17 July 1812) was the Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons. He inherited his father James Broadwood's profession, that of a wright or carpenter/joiner, and as a young man walked from Oldhamstocks to London, a distance of almost 400 miles, where he worked for the harpsichord maker Burkat Shudi. Burkat Shudi died in 1773, and John Broadwood took control of the company from his brother-in-law in 1783. Broadwood is credited, together with Robert Stodart, founder of another famous firm of piano makers, of helping Americus Backers to perfect the English Grand Action, which remained in use by many makers virtually unchanged for 70 years and, in Broadwoods' case over 100 years, and continued in use in various improved forms until the early years of the 20th century.
In time his sales of pianos exceeded those of harpsichords, to the point that he ceased to manufacture harpsichords in 1793. He died in London. Broadwood's other technical innovations in piano manufacture include: adding a separate bridge for the bass notes, patenting the piano pedal in 1783 and expanding the then-standard five octave range upwards by half an octave, in response to a request of Dussek, and then by half an octave downwards.
Reconditioned
Tuned, Cleaned, Regulated, Action checked, with parts replaced where necessary. Case revived, scratches removed.
Warranty
Price includes:
- 3 year warranty
- Free piano stool
- Free delivery to a ground floor residence within mainland UK.
