A ‘Piccolo’ upright piano by Wornum, London, circa 1830 The mahogany veneered case with two heavily carved scrolling legs to the front. The folding keyboard cover with a pale watered silk panel above. The mahogany nameboard bearing a paper label inscribed: Royal Patent Equal Tension, Piccolo Piano Forte Invented & Manufactured by Robert Wornum, MUSIC HALL, Store Street, Bedford Square, LONDON. The six octave keyboard FF–f4 with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals. Wornum’s patent tape-check action with two pedals. A label on the action frame giving directions on changing a string and setting up and regulating the action. Serial number 35 Width 115cm, depth 50cm, case height 104cm. Literature: The Colt Clavier Collection Golden Jubilee 1944–1981, p. 30, (103) U428W. The Colt Clavier Collection Silver Jubilee 1944–1969, p. 30, U428W. C. F. Colt with Anthony Miall, The Early Piano, ill. p. 118.
A ‘Piccolo’ upright piano by Wornum, London, circa 1830 The mahogany veneered case with two heavily carved scrolling legs to the front. The folding keyboard cover with a pale watered silk panel above. The mahogany nameboard bearing a paper label inscribed: Royal Patent Equal Tension, Piccolo Piano Forte Invented & Manufactured by Robert Wornum, MUSIC HALL, Store Street, Bedford Square, LONDON. The six octave keyboard FF–f4 with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals. Wornum’s patent tape-check action with two pedals. A label on the action frame giving directions on changing a string and setting up and regulating the action. Serial number 35 Width 115cm, depth 50cm, case height 104cm. Literature: The Colt Clavier Collection Golden Jubilee 1944–1981, p. 30, (103) U428W. The Colt Clavier Collection Silver Jubilee 1944–1969, p. 30, U428W. C. F. Colt with Anthony Miall, The Early Piano, ill. p. 118.
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