Illus. 303.—Cottage Piano, or Upright, about 1800-1810.
Illus. 304.—Chickering Upright
Piano, 1830.
The upper middle panel is filled with a sunburst made of pleated silk. The side-panels are of satinwood, framed in bird’s-eye maple, outlined with mahogany, and the ovals in the centres are of mahogany, with fine lines of ebony and white holly. Altogether, it is as dainty an instrument as any lady could wish for her boudoir.
Illustration [304] shows a Chickering upright piano made in 1830. The frame is of mahogany, and the front of the upper part is filled with a sunburst made of pleated silk, from which this style of piano was sometimes called a sunburst piano.
A very beautiful and ornamental piano is shown in Illustration [305], owned by James H. Darlington, D.D., of Brooklyn, New York. The body of the piano is made of rosewood. The strings are arranged like those in a grand piano, but the sounding-board extends only the distance of the piano body; above that the strings are exposed like those of a harp. The wooden frame upon which the wires are strung is supported by a post of wood elaborately carved and gilded. The keyboard has a range of seven octaves. Upon the inside of the cover is the inscription “New York Piano Company—Kohn patent.”
Illus. 305.—Piano, about 1840.