New York City, New York
Steinway & Sons

Woods, metal strings, metal
ca. 1877
Height: 38 in; Width: 84 in; Depth: 42 in
Strings – Zither – Keyboard

This Steinway Victorian Square Grand Piano from the 19^th century was built @ 1877, a time when Steinway built more square pianos than uprights and grands combined. It is carved Brazilian Rosewood and has a massive handsome appearance with a 88-note keyboard (most pianos had 85 keys at that time), and a full iron frame.  The Square Grand Piano is built with a rectangular shape, much like the clavichord.  They were popular because they were smaller and took less room than the full grands.  The strings run from left to right rather than front to back.

Steinway & Sons is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York by Germany piano builder Heinrich Englehard Steinway.  Heinrich first opened a factory in New York City and later a factory in Hamburg, Germany.  The factory in the Queens borough of New York City supplies the Americas, while the factory in Hamburg supplies pianos to the rest of the world.  Over the pass 150 plus years the high quality and prominent piano company has been granted 139 patents in piano making.

Resource: Antiquepianoshop. com