| Category: | Auctions - Antiques and collector objects |
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| Position: | Id: 27095427 · Catalog number: 05-05437 · Ware in house 2 |
| Termin: | Auction at 30.05.2026 · Begin: 10:00:00 (Balance time 24 days and 9 hours and 49 minutes) Preview: 19.05.26 |
| Limit: | 400,- € |
| Beschreibung | Southern German upright piano, probably Christian Gaiser, Rastatt, around 1818, corpusWalnut veneer, 4 squared feet,3 knee levers: damper release, moderator and bassoon, original dustboard walnut, fragmentary Manufacturer's label: "Instrumentenmacher in Rastatt empfiehlt sich in Verfertigung von Flügeln (?) und Pianofortes, welche den Wiener Instrumenten nicht nachstehen...in Gitarren zu billigsten...liche Preisen". With one extraordinary beautiful worked Vienna mechanic, in a wooden case; the hammers are covered in leather in keeping with the period of its manufacture; the keyboard range is 5½ octaves; the table piano is largely in its original condition; there are no signs of any attempt to make it playable; Christian Gaiser is in the Literature active between 1800-1825. One of his instruments was in the Colt-Collection in Bethersden, Kent, England, one additional piano around 1830 has been located in an southern German private property |
