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Albert Weber Vertical Pianos use AAA solid spruce soundboards with. Fox moved the business to Kingston, Ontario, Canada. STYLE Professional Upright SIZE 52 FINISH Satin Finish Ebony Polish. Fox had a very good reputation for building high quality pianos and he was very successful. maker Weber decorator Herter Brothers Place Made United States: New York, New York City Physical Description iron (frame: material) felt (hammers: material) wood (case: material) Measurements overall: 138.5 cm x 155.4 cm x 66. By 1860, Fox is listed as building pianos at 86 Walker Street, New York City.

WEBER UPRIGHT PIANO SERIAL NUMBER

The piano is serial number 9957, and has a compass of AAA-c5, tape-check upright action (probably not original), felt hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, cross-strung, 2 pedals: “soft” and dampers, a double iron frame, and an ebonized case with inlaid designs and gilded banding. Beautifully decorated by Herter Brothers, furniture designers of New York, this instrument helped Weber challenge Steinway at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876.

This video shows an 1881German piano with a virtually identical action. The Weber name has been built consistently ever. Weber was established in 1852, a year before Steinway, and they built some of the most expensive, well made pianos of the 19th Century.

WEBER UPRIGHT PIANO FULL

They should not be compared to the English birdcage pianos. This Weber upright piano is a full size, hand made instrument made in the highly elaborate Rococo style, with beautifully carved legs, moldings, and fretwork. They can be restored to very good playing capacity. German overdamper pianos were well designed and well made. In your gigs, for you to play the piano, the Roland RD-88 costs just 99. Weber was a company in Berlin, not the AmericanWeber co. He simply made extremely fine pianos like this 1876 upright and sold them at fair prices. Powered by Casio Powergen, the GP-310 Hybrid gives you 30 percent greater energy efficiency than the GP-310 Classic. Object Details See more items in Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments Music & Musical Instruments Cultures & Communities Pianos date made 1876 ID Number 1980.0360.01 catalog number 1980.0360.01 accession number 1980.0360 Description (Brief) Albert Weber became Steinway’s principal competitor in the 1870s, just as the Chickering company began to falter.