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Cottage piano

Cottage piano small upright piano, vertically strung originally called harmonic piano, made by Robert Wornum in 1813 and improved in 1828, at which time it was only 117 cm. (3 ft. 10 in.) high. The name was subsequently extended to low uprights of other makers also (92). Harding, Rosamund E. M. The Pianoforte. Cambridge, 1933.

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