{"id":4033,"date":"2025-01-07T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/portfolio-items\/john-broadwood-1785\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:51:47","slug":"john-broadwood-1785","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/portfolio-items\/john-broadwood-1785\/","title":{"rendered":"John Broadwood 1785"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Broadwood<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Johannes Broadwood London Fecit 1785 Patent
\nGreat Pulteney Street Golden Square<\/p>\n<\/div>

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John Broadwood (1732-1812) was undoubtedly the foremost English piano maker.<\/p>\n

He began by building table pianos and then in 1783 began to produce grand pianos. In 1785 he became the first piano manufacturer to apply foot pedals, attaching two pedals to the front legs. In 1794 he extended the keyboard to six octaves: in Europe at this time the compass of a piano keyboard was only a little over five octaves.<\/p>\n

The piano displayed here has a very simple \u201cEnglish single\u201d action with brass \u00a0underdampers.<\/p>\n

style:<\/em> square
\nwidth:<\/em> cm. 159
\ndepth:<\/em> cm.54
\nheight (floor to keyboard):<\/em> cm. 71
\ncompass: FF-f”’<\/em>
\noctave size:<\/em> cm. 16,35
\nstrings:<\/em> FF-E (bichord open-spun winding brass) F-d#(bichord\u00a0 brass) e-f”'(bichord iron)
\nbridge:<\/em> continuous
\naction: <\/em>single englisch\u00a0 underdampers
\nhammer covering: <\/em>leater
\npedals:<\/em> none
\nknee levers: <\/em>none\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>
\nstructure:<\/em>\u00a0 wood
\ncase: <\/em>mahogany, maple and ebony<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i>click here to listen : Mozart \u2013 Sonata in do magg. K 545 \u201cSonata facile\u201d \u2013 Franco Angeleri, Broadwood 1785<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3399,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[59,51],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-england","portfolio_category-pianos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/4033\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}