Instrument: Bösendorfer grand piano

Bösendorfer grand piano

Serial number 167, made in 1841
Ash veneer
Nameboard: "I. BÖSENDORFER / KAISERL: KÖNIGL: HOF= [Austrian Double Eagle] FORTEPIANOVERFERTIGER / WIEN / GOLDENE MEDAILLE / AUSSTELLUNG 1839" (I[gnaz] Bösendorfer / Imperial and Royal Court Fortepiano Manufacturer / Vienna / Gold Medal / Exhibition 1839)
Range: 6½ octaves CC - g4, straight-strung scale, three bridges, no original iron bracing
Prellmechanik action
Una corda and damper pedals
Previously owned by Benedectine monastery (Kremsmünster, Austria) and Cornell University
Indigenous repertoire: late Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, etc.

ANDREW WILLIS pianist