I sampled the piano to make it more conventionally. I’ve done all kinds of film score recording with the mallets on the strings but it’s so hard to keep track of the notes and easy to hit strays that parts always had to be pretty minimal and subject to lots of DAW editing. Fox moved the business to Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This is my early 1960s Weber upright played with a wooden mallet. Fox had a very good reputation for building high quality pianos and he was very successful. maker Weber decorator Herter Brothers Place Made United States: New York, New York City Physical Description iron (frame: material) felt (hammers: material) wood (case: material) Measurements overall: 138.5 cm x 155.4 cm x 66. By 1860, Fox is listed as building pianos at 86 Walker Street, New York City. The piano is serial number 9957, and has a compass of AAA-c5, tape-check upright action (probably not original), felt hammers, single-, double-, and triple-strings, cross-strung, 2 pedals: “soft” and dampers, a double iron frame, and an ebonized case with inlaid designs and gilded banding. Beautifully decorated by Herter Brothers, furniture designers of New York, this instrument helped Weber challenge Steinway at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. He simply made extremely fine pianos like this 1876 upright and sold them at fair prices.

Object Details See more items in Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments Music & Musical Instruments Cultures & Communities Pianos date made 1876 ID Number 1980.0360.01 catalog number 1980.0360.01 accession number 1980.0360 Description (Brief) Albert Weber became Steinway’s principal competitor in the 1870s, just as the Chickering company began to falter.

Weber upright piano