An Early George III Square Piano
by Frederick Beck, London 1773
Height: 2 ft 8 in (81.5 cm)
Width: 4 ft 8 1/2 in (143.5 cm)
Depth: 1 ft 7 1/4 in (49 cm)
The mahogany case with chequer stringing, the nameboard bearing a boxwood tablet set in an amboyna panel with the inscription “Fredericus Beck Londini fecit 1773, no 4 Broad Street, Golden Square”, on a moulded trestle stand.
Disposition
5 octaves FF to F3 without the bottom FF sharp.
Two handstops for sustaning divided at Middle C and a hand operated buff stop.