Alpheus Babcock

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Alpheus Babcock

American craftsman

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keyboard instrument
Bracing and frame
…applied to square pianos by Alpheus Babcock of Boston in 1825, and in 1843 another Bostonian, Jonas Chickering, patented a one-piece frame for grands. With the adoption of such frames, the tension exerted by each string (about 24 pounds [11 kilograms] for an English piano of 1800) rose to an…
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…applied to square pianos by Alpheus Babcock of Boston in 1825, and in 1843 another Bostonian, Jonas Chickering, patented a one-piece frame for grands. With the adoption of such frames, the tension exerted by each string (about 24 pounds [11 kilograms] for an English piano of 1800) rose to an…
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