{"id":4186,"date":"2025-01-07T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/portfolio-items\/robert-wornum-1850-ca\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:43:49","slug":"robert-wornum-1850-ca","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/portfolio-items\/robert-wornum-1850-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wornum 1850 ca."},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Wornum<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

(ca. 1848)
\nPocket Albion Grand\/invented and manifactured by Robert Wornum\/MUSIC ALL, Store Street, Bedford Square LONDON<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Robert Wornum (1780-1852), a talented English piano maker, is believed to have invented the action of the upright pianoforte which preceded the type of piano in use nowadays.<\/p>\n

He received notable plaudits for his patents, and invented a vast number of technical, building, and aesthetic features. He was probably aided by his son Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877), an art historian, who collaborated with his father and took over the business on his death.<\/p>\n

The piano on display features the so-called downstriking<\/strong> action, by means of which the strings are struck from above.<\/p>\n

In the traditional piano action, the soundboard must necessarily be cut through to enable the hammers to reach the strings from below.<\/p>\n

The downstriking<\/strong> action <\/strong>is very delicate and complicated, but eliminates the need for interruption of the soundboard, making it possible to build a very compact and solid instrument able to sustain any amount of tension in the strings.<\/p>\n

The entire construction can thus be made of wood; there is no need for metal bracings which were felt to alter the tone quality of the instrument.<\/p>\n

n. 8336\/634<\/p>\n

style:<\/em> grand
\nlenght:<\/em> cm. 175
\nwidth:<\/em> cm. 120
\nheight (floor to keyboard):<\/em> cm.72
\ncompass: FF-g””\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>
\noctave size:<\/em> cm. 16,35
\nbridge:<\/em> continuous
\naction: <\/em>Downstriking\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>
\nhammer covering: <\/em>felt
\nstrings:<\/em> FF-G (bichord cooper winding) G#-g (bichord cooper winding) g#-g”” (bichord iron)
\npedals:<\/em> shift, dampers
\nstructure:<\/em> wood
\ncase: <\/em>rosewood figured<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3405,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[59,51],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","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\/4186","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=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/4186\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemusicale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}