A Stewards Patent Euphonicon upright piano by H.Beale & Co., 201 Regent Street London, with painted and gilt cast iron frame and rococo-style gilt metal mounts, the six-and-a-half octave keyboard in rosewood frame with pedals and fretted music rest, the soundboard painted and gilt with similar back board above fretted panels --79in. (201cm) high, 53in. (135cm) wide, inscribed Thos Mills Broad Street Birm. March 1844, The first ever brought to this town (action dismantled)

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A Stewards Patent Euphonicon upright piano by H.Beale & Co., 201 Regent Street London, with painted and gilt cast iron frame and rococo-style gilt metal mounts, the six-and-a-half octave keyboard in rosewood frame with pedals and fretted music rest, the soundboard painted and gilt with similar back board above fretted panels --79in. (201cm) high, 53in. (135cm) wide, inscribed Thos Mills Broad Street Birm. March 1844, The first ever brought to this town (action dismantled)

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Made from 1841, the Euphonicon was an early attempt to provide a metal-framed grand piano of remarkably compact form. At the base of the frame is a bank of tuning nuts, on studs connected to the strings via a short length of chain passing under a straining rod. The iron frame thus carries the entire tension of the strings, with no wrest-board.