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mamacockatoo Store
1897 Original Upright Piano
Mathushek Son
Up for auction is a beautiful original Mathushek Son upright piano. This piano is elegantly made of quarter sawn oak. Appraised at $7,000.00 (reserve price is $3,500.)
This antique upright is in great condition, all keys work!
This piano was handed down to our daughter from her grandmother in hopes that she would learn to play- she took six weeks of lessons, and gave up! we are now moving and cannot take it with us!
Pick up only! In Pembroke Pines, Florida( Fort Lauderdale area) If shipping is needed Buyer must arrange and pay all costs for shipping!
(there are a few paint scuffs i realized after i had taken the photos- should be no problem to get off!)
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask
Here is some information that I have found about the history: Mathushek Son
In 1879 Frederick and Hugo Mathushek, jr. patented a new arrangement of bridge agraffes combined with a development of the front terminations introduced in the 1860 patent. The bridge arrangement, styled the equilibre system, involved deflecting the strings alternately toward and away from the soundboard to two different levels of hitch pins - a difference claimed to be as much as 15 degrees in one advertisement - in order to minimize the downward strain applied to the sounding board (which is usually less than 2 degrees with conventional pinned bridges).[23]
The following year, the Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co. cautioned the public against "bogus instruments represented as genuine Mathushek Pianos, at auction sales and elsewhere."[24]
In 1881 "the only genuine Mathushek with the equilibre system" was advertised having been "invented and manufactured by the original Mathusheks in New York", and the public was informed that "Mathushek, New York" should be cast in the iron frame and warned against pianos manufactured in West Haven, Connecticut under the same name.[25]
From 1882 to 1886 the name was claimed by Mathushek Kinkeldey, at 210 East 129th street, New York, which had been founded by Frederick Mathushek's grandson[5] Victor Hugo Mathushek and who was joined by Charles Kinkeldey, the former superintendent for (John B.) Dunham Sons,[26] which had failed unexpectedly toward the end of 1880.[27] V. H. Mathushek became sole owner of the company in 1886 and the firm became Mathushek Son, located at 108 East 125th street and 242-244 East 122nd street and showed $35,000 in assets in 1887, but in April, 1888 the company was turned over to assignors.[28]
Frederick Mathushek died November 9, 1891 at 242 West 123rd street, where he had lived with his grandson for five years. He had been superintendent at Mathushek Son, at 344 and 346 East 23rd street.
Victor Hugo Mathushek continued to develop designs like his grandfather's, and received patents for soundboard construction in 1891 (the duplex sounding board) and 1895, and metallic frames in 1896.[29] Mathushek Son's factory and warerooms were at Broadway and 47th street, New York in 1900,[30] where they sold a series of small upright pianos of their own manufacture, as well as Apollo, and later Regal players, and pianos by more famous manufacturers, and in 1903 they opened warerooms in Red Bank, New Jersey.[31]
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