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  • Lyraflügel (ca.1820-44) by Johann Christian Schleip
Lyraflügel
Johann Christian Schleip (1786-1848) 

Accession Number: 68.47
Date:		  ca. 1820–44
Geography:	  Berlin, Germany
Medium: 	  Wood, silk, gilt, ivory
Dimensions:	  ...
Classification:   Chordophone-Zither
Credit Line:	  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore R. Sayers, 1968

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684
  • Grand Pianoforte (ca.1840) by Érard [et Cie]
Grand Pianoforte
Érard (French, ca. 1780–1959) , made in London

Accession Number: 59.76
Date:		  ca. 1840
Geography:	  London, England, United Kingdom
Medium: 	  Wood, various materials
Dimensions:	  ...
Classification:   Chordophone-Zither
Credit Line:	  Gift of Mrs. Henry McSweeney, 1959

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684
  • Pedal Harp (1891-95) by Lyon & Healy
Pedal Harp
Lyon & Healy  (American, Chicago, Illinois)

Accession Number: 2001.171
Date:		  1891–95
Geography:	  Chicago, Illinois, United States
Medium: 	  Wood, metal
Dimensions:	  H. 178 cm (70-1/8 in.), D. 94 cm (37 in.)
Classification:  Chordophone-Harp
Credit Line:	  Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of Andrﾃｩ Mertens, 2001

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  • Lyraflügel (ca.1820-44) by Johann Christian Schleip, Grand Pianoforte (ca.1840) by Erard et Cie, Pedal Harp (1891-95) by Lyon & Healy, The Met, NYC.
    Lyraflügel (ca.1820-44) by Johann Christian Schleip, Grand Pianoforte (ca.1840) by Erard et Cie, Pedal Harp (1891-95) by Lyon & Healy, The Met, NYC.
  • Lyraflügel MET DP225546
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  • Grand Piano
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  • Harp, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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" New York City (NYC) Setembro de 2011 / De: 14 a 22 de setembro de 2011 "
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  • Johann Christian Schleip (ca. 1820–44). [68.47] Lyraflügel. Berlin, Germany.
    "​ Maker: Johann Christian Schleip (1786–1848) ",
    "​ Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Inscription: Inscribed: (on rectangular porcelain nameplate) “J.C. Schleip/in/Berlin” ",
    "​ [Description] This type of upright piano was made almost exclusively in Berlin between 1820 and 1850. The Lyraflügel was a fashionable fixture of middle-class Biedermeier parlors in northern German lands. In the period of the Napoleonic occupation (1806–13), the lyre had become a symbol of freedom and liberation. It was popularized in songs based on the collection of patriotic poems, With Lyre and Sword, by the poet Theodor Körner (1791–1813). These songs, with their references not only to the lyres of Orpheus and Apollo but also to Friedrich Schiller’s ideas of freedom and liberation from tyranny, were sung for decades. ",
    "​The lyre became a widespread emblem, as ornament, as lyre guitar, or, here, as frame for the piano pedals. Schleip was the principal manufacturer of the Lyraflügel, even claiming in 1820 to be its inventor. The early Lyraflügel still had knee levers and straight legs. ",
    "​From about 1825 on, Schleip built it, as here, with pedals. Finally, in about 1832 he began building heavier instruments with hanging actions. Its three pedals are for una corda, bassoon effect, and release of the dampers. A technical particularity of the instrument is that the sound board is suspended only on the right side so that its left side can vibrate freely like a tuning fork. To balance the volume between bass and treble and to prevent the bass from becoming too dull, the bass side of the sound board is spared. Finally, to further the harmony and beauty of the sound, the strings, the grain of the sound board, and the beams of the supporting structure run parallel to each other at the same angle. "
  • Érard (circa 1840
    date QS:P,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
    ). [59.76] Grand Pianoforte. London, England.
    "​ Manufacturer: Érard (French, ca. 1780–1959) , made in London ",
    "​ Designer: George Henry Blake ",
    "​ [Description] This piano, featuring an extraordinary marquetry satinwood case designed by George Henry Blake, is one of the most elaborately decorated instruments of the nineteenth century. It was commissioned from the London branch of the distinguished French firm of Érard by Thomas Henry Foley, Baron of Kidderminster, for Witley Court, his residence near Herefordshire and Worcestershire. ",
    "​The decorative program of the piano consists of mythological personages, references to the Foley family, and symols related to music-making and musical instruments. The piano case features extraordinary marquetry that utilizes materials such as holly, mahogany, burl walnut, tulipwood, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and silver wire. When closed, the center of the lid top features a large music-themed marquetry trophy with instruments that include a hurdy-gurdy, tambourine, viol and bow, lute, panpipes, hunting horn, French horn, and sheets of music and a volume of Beethoven's symphonies. The elaborate lid decorations also feature images of animal and human grotesques and floral sprays as well as representations on ivory of Persephone, Ceres, and Bacchus. The lid, case sides, and key flap also feature extraordinary marquetry and scenes of every day life such as a woman and child warming themselves by a fire, a shepherd boy with a dog, and figures making music or dancing. The exposed underside of the lid flap has a large decoration of the Foley family coat-of-arms with two lion supporters. ",
    "​The entire instrument has heavy gilt wood edging in the Louis XV style that incorporates carved flowers, scrolls, musical instruments, shells, and masks of Bacchus, Apollo, Diana, and Venus at the top of each leg. Each of these likenesses is said to represent a member of the Foley family. The pedal lyre has the face of "Wind" and attached are two three-dimensional carved and gilt birds. The instrument sits on a stand with a stretcher, in the style of eighteenth century French harpsichords. In the center of the stretcher is a reclining painted figure of Apollow with his lyre. ",
    "​The keyboard compass is CC-g4 (80 keys) with ivory naturals and ebony accidentals. There are two marquetried wood pedals, the left for the una corda and the right for the dampers. The instrument has the double-escapement action invented by Sébastian Érard and refined by his nephew Pierre, the most advanced for its period and the basis for the modern piano action. The instrument is triple strung except for the five lowest notes which each have two overwound bass strings. The strings for the top 26 notes pass beneath a pierced brass bar, Pierre Érards "harmonic bar" patented in 1838. The open-bottom wooden case is reinforced by longitudinal steel bars. "
  • Lyon & Healy (1891–95). [2001.171] Pedal Harp. Chicago, Illinois.
    "​ Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Marking: (engraved below tuning pins) “Lyon & Healy/Chicago Makers U.S.A./No. 115. Manufactured under five patents.” ",
    "​ [Description] The harp is the firm's model 23, which was introduced in 1895 and was produced in this style by about 1913. It is one of the earliest items made of this model and the 115th harp the company had built since 1889. It is a semi-grand harp with seven double action pedals and an eights pedal to control a swell at the back of the soundboard to manipulate the volume. The harp has forty-five strings for a compass from CC to e"" (second position). Later the company resumed the production of model 23 with forty-seven strings and different decoration. ",
    "​The pedals can be set in three positions and the associated double action raises the basic pitch of a string by one or by two half steps by means of a twin forked disk mechanism. If the pedals rest in the top position, no mechanical action takes place and the seven strings per octave deliver the scale C-flat major. Pressed to the second position (the pedal can be arrested in a lateral notch), the mechanism raises the pitch by a half step, resulting in the scale C major, if all pedals are pressed. Pressing the pedals to the bottom (third position), the scale switches to C-sharp major. The pedals for the left foot serve the notes D, C, and B, the right foot the notes E, F, G, and A. This way, the double action harp has astounding playing technical possibilities superior to those of the single action harp, the hook harp, and the chromatic harps with double or triple stringing. Composers like François-Adrien Boildieu, Camille Saint-Saens, and in particular Claude Debussy, but also Richard Wagner and Peter Tchaikovsky have much contributed to expand the technical possibilities of the double action harp. ",
    "​Lyon & Healy went into business in 1864 as publisher; in 1885, the company added the manufacturing of all kinds of musical instruments, and in 1889 it began building harps. Within a few decades, Lyon & Healy evolved into one of the best harp makers in America and displaced the company Rudolph Wurlitzer, which built harps between 1909 and 1936, also in Chicago. Lyon & Healy became globally successful as a result of the fine musical qualities and the outstanding workmanship of its harps. However, all basic technical innovations were developed long before: the forked disk mechanism by Sebastian Erard (1794) and the double action of the pedals by Charles Groll/S. Erard (1807/10). The eights pedal for operating a swell shutter at the back of the sound body was invented by Jean-Baptist Krumpholz (1742–1790) and first built in 1786 by Jean Henri Naderman. It was the finer points of workmanship and beauty of sound that led Lyon & Healy to its great success. "

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