Museum Collection

  • Pianos
  • Charles Taws
  • 18th Century
  • North America

Taws Square Pianoforte

1791 The compact size of this square piano made it a better fit for most homes at the time. Instead of the strings arranged vertically like

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  • Strings
  • Paul Alletsee
  • 18th Century
  • Europe

Viola d’amore

ca. 1700 Head and neck are later: ca. 1820, PragueRestorer: Andrew Dipper, Minneapolis6 brass understrings, 6 gup topstringsGermany

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  • Pianos
  • Almon Kincaid Virgil
  • 19th Century
  • North America

Virgil Practice Clavier

This is a Virgil Practice Piano and was once owned by Sergei (Sair-gay) Rachmaninoff.  We have a handwritten note from a man named Bill Hupfer

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  • Manuscripts
  • Wolfgang Mozart
  • 18th Century
  • Europe

Wolfgang Mozart Letter- 1790

7 1/4 x 9- 2-sided letter to wife Constanze, written from Frankfurt am Main30 September 1790 Dearest little Wife of my Heart! If only I

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  • Pianos
  • Wurlitzer
  • 20th Century
  • North America

Wurlitzer Electronic Piano model 145B

1965 First developed in the 1950s, the Wurlitzer Electronic Piano’s unique tone is generated by striking an amplified metal reed with a piano hammer.  Once

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  • Pianos
  • Wurlitzer
  • 20th Century
  • North America

Wurlitzer Grand Piano, Model 770

1940 This unique, art-deco style instrument was introduced in 1940 as a showpiece of technical advancement at a national exhibition in Chicago.  The piano was

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  • Pianoforte
  • Johannes Zumpe
  • 18th Century
  • Europe

Zumpe Square Pianoforte

1768 A student of Gottfried Silbermann, Johannes Zumpe and his colleagues fled Germany for London during the Seven Years’ War. His creation of a conveniently

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