Description

Inlaid Cabinet

A 1910, Collard and Collard baby grand piano with a mahogany case and gate legs attached with a cross stretcher. Cabinet inlaid with satinwood stringing accents. The music desk is in a cut-out repeating rectangular design. The square piano cheek is inalid with satinwood stringing and is bordered with a linear case moulding. Collard and Collard name is etched on the piano fall. The circular rod lid stay has an ornate brass hinge

Collard and Collard

Frederick William Collard baptised in 1772, came to London at the age of fourteen. He obtained a position in the house of Longman, Lukey, & Broderip, music publishers and pianoforte makers at 26 Cheapside. In 1799 Longman & Co. experienced commercial difficulties, and a new company, consisting of John Longman, Muzio Clementi, Frederick Augustus Hyde, F. W. Collard, Josiah Banger, and David Davis, took over the business. On 28 June 1800, Longman and Hyde retired, and the firm henceforth was known as Muzio Clementi & Co. After some time Frederick William Collard was admitted a partner, and on 24 June 1817 Banger left the company. On 24 June 1831 the partnership between F. W. Collard, W. F. Collard, and Clementi expired, and the two brothers continued the business until 24 June 1842, when W. F. Collard retired, and F. W. Collard, then sole proprietor, took into partnership his two nephews, Frederick William Collard junior, and Charles Lukey Collard. After 1832 the pianos which had been sold under the name of Clementi began to be called Collard & Collard. Many patents improved both the action and the frame of the instruments. Under Collard & Collard the firm soon ceased music publishing and dedicated themselves to piano making. The only exception was that they had still maintained the contract for supplying bugles, fifes, and drums to the regiments of the East India Company until 1858.