Gallery of Square Pianos: The Piano Museum

Alpheus Babcock square	This piano was made for Ruth (R.) MacKay, mother of John Mackay of Chickering and MacKays fame	Brown & Allen Square		Chickering & MacKays Square #3983	Mr. MacKay and his son (hence Mackays) partnered with Chickering for a time. The elder Mackay was lost at sea during one of his many trips to distribute pianos and come home with rare hardwoods for the factory. Somewhere between this piano…
Chickering & MacKays Square #4723	In the space of 700 odd pianos Chickering made a large leap forward introducing a full iron plate. This plate reaches to the edges of the entire perimeter of the case. These are not the original legs. They most likely would have looked…	Chickering Square #20725	An all original square from the mid century. In very good playing condition, rosewood.	Chickering Square #6978	This square is much like the other Chickerings but was built before the big fire that destroyed the factory. Jonas Chickering still ran the business at this point, so we have kept this example.
Ellis, Britton & Eaton Salesman Sample Square	This little piano is most likely a salesman's sample. It has a working action and a real harp, strings and tuning pins.	Geib Square #401	Geib was one of the earliest of makers in the US. This is an early example of their work from around 1825.	Gilbert (Lemuel) Square #777	Both Lemuel and Timothy made squares such as this. Timothy's pianos are of slightly higher quality, it seems.