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Clavichord (after Christian Gotthelf Hoffman, 1784)
1906
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Cherry
Dimensions
Length 172.2 cm, width 50.5 cm, case height 15.2 cm (Length 67 13/16 in., width 19 7/8 in., case height 6 in.)
Credit Line
Edward F. Searles Musical Instrument Collection—Gift of Edward S. Rowland, Benjamin A. Rowland, Jr., George B. Rowland, Daniel B. Rowland, Rodney D. Rowland and M.A. Swedlund in memory of their father, Benjamin Allen Rowland
Accession Number1981.753
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
InscriptionsIn ink on the hitch-pin plank: Made by Chickering & Sons / under the direction of / Arnold Dolmetsch / Boston USA / MCMVI / no. 7; in ink on nameboard: CHICKERING & SONS BOSTON VSA MCMVI No. 7; in pencil on inside of bottom: No 7; in ink? on side of FF key lever: I. Fuso
ProvenanceBefore 1920, Edward F. Searles (1841-1920), Methuen, Massachusetts; by 1920, by inheritance to B. Allen Rowland (1910-1991), New Castle, New Hampshire; 1981, gift of the estate of B. Allen Rowland, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)