Gallery of Square Pianos: The Piano Museum

Alpheus Babcock Square # 61	This square has the same general case design as #170 and #338 but with a more ornate wood grain pattern and more detail in the edgings and leg ferrules, It is in mostly original condition. The pedals are not attached in these pictures. Real…	Alpheus Babcock Square #170	This piano spent most of its life in Mexico at the US embassy, before traveling to a private home in the 1970s. Recently it has made its third move to here in Hopkinton. Again it is a Ruth MacKay piano and is very similar to our other…	Alpheus Babcock Square #207
Alpheus Babcock Square #336	This piano was made for Ruth (R.) MacKay, mother of John Mackay of Chickering and MacKays fame	Alpheus Babcock Square #338		Alpheus Babcock Square #423	This is a later design with a larger soundboard
Alpheus Babcock Square #440		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…