Grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A Baldwin grand piano owned and used by Thelonious Monk. The piano is dark brown with a hinged lid. Gold pigment at the center of the fall board at the front of the piano reads “Baldwin.” The fall board can be closed to hide the keyboard. When the lid of the piano body is open the cast iron frame, pins, dampers, hammers and strings are visible. The frame has raised embossed lettering at several locations. This lettering reads “BALDWIN TRADE MARK” and “BALDWIN” at the top of the frame. At the center of the frame the lettering reads “GRAND PRIX PARIS 1900 GRAND PRIZE ST. LOUIS 1904 THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY CINCINNATI 9. U.S.A.” At the bottom of the frame next to the keys the lettering reads “L / 156171” and “ACOUSTIC / PATENTED / CONSTRUCTION.

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