Lyraflügel, ca. 1820–44, Berlin, Germany, German, Wood, silk, gilt, ivory, H. 7' 3'; W. 49 in., D. 2 ft., Chordophone-Zither

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Lyraflügel, ca. 1820–44, Berlin, Germany, German, Wood, silk, gilt, ivory, H. 7' 3'; W. 49 in., D. 2 ft., Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano, Johann Christian Schleip (1786–1848), This type of upright piano was made almost exclusively in Berlin between 1820 and 1850. The Lyraflügel was a fashionable fixture of middle-class Biedermeier parlors in northern German lands. In the period of the Napoleonic occupation (1806–13), the lyre had become a symbol of freedom and liberation

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