Grand Pianoforte a piece of furniture which has hitherto set designers at defiance, and which, although an expensive article, has always been unsightly. In the present design it is, hoivever, successfully treated, by the introduction of pillar-and-claw standards, as shown on the plan, and by making the pillar, at the smaller end, less in diameter. It is also greatly improved in appearance by lowering the top, which can be done where Burttiuyoung’s patent works are intro¬ duced, they being contained in the ridge which is seen over the first standard in the design, and which leaves the keys leve
Grand Pianoforte a piece of furniture which has hitherto set designers at defiance, and which, although an expensive article, has always been unsightly. In the present design it is, hoivever, successfully treated, by the introduction of pillar-and-claw standards, as shown on the plan, and by making the pillar, at the smaller end, less in diameter. It is also greatly improved in appearance by lowering the top, which can be done where Burttiuyoung’s patent works are intro¬ duced, they being contained in the ridge which is seen over the first standard in the design, and which leaves the keys level with the other portions of the top from The practical cabinet maker & upholsterer's treasury of designs : house-furnishing & decorating assistant : in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-Quatorze, Gothic, Tudor, and Elizabethan styles : interspersed with designs executed for the royal palaces, and for some of the principal mansions of the nobility and gentry, and club houses by Henry Whitaker, 1847
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