一架为一个宫殿制造的钢琴

一架由英国人约翰布罗得伍德和他的儿子们制造的新哥特式的半镀金的橡木三角钢琴，伦敦，序列号21,647。由约翰·史密斯于19世纪第三季设计之后的一个琴体。

顶部有三个大的黄铜铰链的肩带，上面有三叶草拱形双方终止于描绘出宫廷演出的浮雕雕刻板画。

在八角形的琴腿上有叶形装饰雕刻的大写字母，琴盖上刻约翰布罗得伍德和他的儿子们于伦敦的浮雕，在盖子的内侧盖了21647/W&G的印章，长250 cm，1882年起源于威廉方丈，在肯辛顿修道院。

约翰·布罗得伍德父子有限公司的细节记录了这架钢琴是在他们的伦敦威斯敏斯弗利路车间里建造的，于1881年12月22日完成。于1882年1月20日它被卖给了威廉·B·福德姆，一个批发钢琴经销商，以相当大的一笔英镑440。然而很显然，从某个威廉·阿博特随后支付了500英镑的零售价格（在1881年这约等值为25万英镑），数字21,647是特殊订货。  威廉修道院长，一个富裕的股票经纪人，为他的新房子--在肯辛顿平卡姆登山道上占领了相当大的1.5英亩土地的修道院订购了这款钢琴。很显然，这个三角钢琴被订购是用来渲染修道院室内的装饰，于1879-1880年由建筑师亨利Winnock海伍德以哥特式装饰风格完成。

约翰·布罗得伍德父子有限公司“钢琴制造商”由瑞士出生Burkat Shudi于1728年创立于伦敦，但把约翰·布罗得伍德父子有限公司的名字传让给了他的女婿，于1773年承担了企业的生意权。继续由他的后裔把事业繁荣了整个19世纪。贝多芬的布罗得伍德钢琴现在被保存在匈牙利布达佩斯国家博物馆，肖邦在他的英国之旅中使用布罗得伍德三角钢琴。皇家赞助人包括乔治四世国王，在1821年为布莱顿展馆订购了布罗得伍德三角钢琴，维多利亚女王和阿尔伯特亲王，于1840年在白金汉宫收到一个布罗得伍德钢琴的交付。


A Piano Made For A Palace!
An English NEO-GOTHIC PARCEL-GILT Oak Grand Piano by John Broadwood & Sons, London, Serial No. 21,647, The case after a design by John Moyr Smith, Third Quarter 19th Century.
The top with three large brass hinge straps, above trefoil-arched sides terminating in relief-carved panels depicting courtly recitals, on octagonal legs with acanthus-carved capitals, the keyboard cover carved in relief John Broadwood & Sons/London, stamped 21647/W&G to the underside of the lid. 250 cm long. Provenance
William Abbot, at the Abbey, Kensington, 1882.
The records of John Broadwood & Sons Ltd. detail that this piano was built at their Horseferry Road workshops, Westminster, London, and finished on 22 December 1881. On 20 January 1882 it was sold to William B. Fordham, a wholesale piano dealer, for the considerable sum of £440. However it is clear that Number 21,647 was a special order from a certain William Abbot who subsequently paid a retail price of £500 (This would be approximately 250,000 £ equivalent in 1881). William Abbot, a wealthy stockbroker, had ordered the piano for his new house The Abbey which occupied a sizeable 1½ acre plot on Campden Hill Road, Kensington. It is clear that this grand piano was ordered to compliment the interior decorations of the The Abbey, which was completed in 1879-1880 by architect Henry Winnock Haywood in the decorated gothic style.
John Broadwood & Sons Ltd. 'Pianoforte makers' was founded in London by the Swiss born Burkat Shudi in 1728 but owes its name to his son-in-law who assumed control of the business in 1773. Continued by his decedents the business prospered throughout the 19th century. Beethoven's piano by Broadwood is now preserved in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest, and Chopin used Broadwood grands for his British tour. Royal patrons included King George IV, who ordered a grand piano for the Brighton Pavilion in 1821, and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who received delivery of one at Buckingham Palace in 1840.