This list of 266 instruments has been compiled from recent sightings rather than from old publications, so hopefully all of these pianos still survive. The objective of the list is to be able to locate the instruments for research. BEWARE; survival rates do not correspond with manufacture: eg 61/2 Octave instruments were being built in 1811, but no survivors have yet been found earlier than 1820.
PLEASE SEND ME ANY CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS. Please send as much information as possible - especially date and serial number and address of present owner. Dates are to be found either on the nameboard inscription, or in ink on the wrest-plank at the treble end. Serial numbers are usually found in ink on the wrest-plank at the bass end, stamped on the rear of the music desk and top of the lyre or top of front rail of stand: occasionally on the inside of the casewall under the wrest-plank in pencil.
Addresses are, for security, kept on a card index, and those of privately owned instruments will not be revealed without permission.
Where there is no entry under country, the address is unknown.
A star in the first column indicates the instrument has been inspected by the author.
Dates are from the instrument or are date of delivery. Dates in Italics are not confirmed.
I have cross referenced this list to some of the entries in 'Makers of the Piano' by M Clinkscale.
| Serial Number | Date | Octaves | Klink scale |
Owner | Country | |||
| * | 69 | 1787 | 5 | 3 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 141? | 1787 | 5 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| * | 208 | 1787 | 5 | 1 | Colt Collection Bethersden | UK | ||
| 258 | 1787 | 5 | Sotheby Dec 85 lot 40 | |||||
| 274 | 1787 | Ex Colt? | ||||||
| 1789 | Private Collection CA? | USA | ||||||
| 1790 | 5 | 7 | Case only Finchcocks | UK | ||||
| 1790 | 5 | Sotheby Lot 46 17 Dec 1997 | ||||||
| 309 | 1791 | 5 | 6 | Private Collection (317 326?) | USA | |||
| 313 | 1791 | 5 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 355 | 1792 | |||||||
| 376 | 1792 | 5 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| * | 378 | 1792 | 5 | Christies Mch 1994 Lot 1 | ||||
| 391 | 1792 | 5 | Private Collection | NL | ||||
| 400? | 1792 | 5? | ||||||
| 417 | 1792 | 5 | Private Collection | NL | ||||
| 442 | 1792 | 51/2 | Old Finchcocks Catalogue | |||||
| 452 | 1792 | 5 | 5 | Metropolitan Museum New York | USA | |||
| 515 | 1793 | |||||||
| 518 | 1793 | 51/2 | ||||||
| * | 521 | 1793 | 51/2 | 8 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 534/6? | 1793 | 51/2 | (ex Benton Fletcher Collection ) | |||||
| 539 | 1793 | Private Collection | ||||||
| 567 | 1793 | |||||||
| 1794 | 51/2 | 10 | Wurttembergisches Museum Stuttgart | D | ||||
| 292 | 1794 | 5 | 9 | Musical Museum, Brentford /Holdenby House | UK | |||
| 599 | 1794 | 51/2 | 14 | Bowes Museum Durham | UK | |||
| 600 | 1794 | 13 | Royal Northern College Music Manchester | UK | ||||
| 681 | 1794 | 6? | ||||||
| 715 | 1794 | 51/2 | 15 | Smithsonian Washington | USA | |||
| 723 | 1794 | 5 | D? | |||||
| * | 737 | 1794 | 51/2 | 16 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 1795 | 18 | Museum Hist d'Argenteuil | Can | |||||
| 818? | 1795 | 51/2 | 17 | Schubert Club Minnesota | USA | |||
| 848 | 1795 | |||||||
| 875 | 1795 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 924 | 1795 | 51/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 1796 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| * | 1796 | 6 | 21 | "Godoy". Museum of Fine Art Boston | USA | |||
| 753 | 1796 | 19 | Private Collection | Aus | ||||
| 888 | 1796 | Private Collection Ireland | UK | |||||
| * | 937 | 1796 | 5 | Bath University | UK | |||
| * | 946 | 1796 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 994 | 1796 | 51/2 | 20 | Sotheby March 89 lot156 | ||||
| 1045? | 1796 | 51/2 | 22 | BROADWOOD? | USA | |||
| * | 1083 | 1796 | 51/2 | National Trust | UK | |||
| 1100 | 1796 | 51/2 | ||||||
| 1112 | 1797 | 6? | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 1119 | 1797 | |||||||
| * | 1136 | 1797 | 51/2 | 24 | Colt Collection Bethersden | UK | ||
| 1137 | 1797 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 1193 | 1797 | 51/2 | 23 | Stiftelsen Stockholm | Swe | |||
| 1245/6? | 1798 | 51/2 | 25 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| * | 1279 | 1798 | 6 | 29 | Inst of History of Art Albany NY | USA | ||
| 1300 | 1798 | 51/2 | 26 | Music History Museum Budapest | Hun | |||
| * | 1317 | 1798 | 51/2 | 28 | Private Collection | D | ||
| 1321 | 1798 | 51/2 | 27 | Private Collection | D | |||
| 1325 | 1798 | 51/2 | Private Collection | D | ||||
| 1388 | 1798 | 51/2 | Private Collection | Sp | ||||
| 1409 | 1798 | 51/2 | USA? | |||||
| * | 1442 | 1798 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 1555 | 1799 | ex E Ripin | ||||||
| * | 1561 | 1799 | 51/2 | Sotheby Nov 98 Lot 102 | UK | |||
| * | 1584/34? | 1799 | 51/2 | 30 | Royal College of Music London | UK | ||
| 1622 | 1799 | |||||||
| * | 1627 | 1799 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 1800 | 33 | UK | ||||||
| 1594 | 1800 | 51/2 | 31 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| 1796 | 1800 | 51/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 1809 | 1800 | 51/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| * | 1815 | 1800 | 51/2 | 34 | Colt | UK | ||
| * | 1928 | 51/2 | Sotheby Nov 2000 | |||||
| * | 1983 | 1801 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 2015 | 1801 | Private Collection | USA | |||||
| * | 2087 | 1801 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 2200 | 1801 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 2204 | 1801 | 51/2 | 35 | Finchcocks Goudhurst | UK | ||
| 2222 | 1801 | 51/2 | Private Collection | D | ||||
| * | 2265 | 1802 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 2343 | 1802 | 51/2 | Private Collection | Swe | ||||
| * | 2355 | 1802 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 2429 | 1802 | 51/2 | Sotheby Nov 94 Lot 163 | |||||
| * | 2443 | 1802 | 6 | Private Collection N Ireland | UK | |||
| 2484 | 1802 | ex Ripin | ||||||
| 1803 | 51/2 | Christies 22 Nov 77 | ||||||
| 2526 | 1803 | 51/2 | 36/7 | Private Collection | Aus | |||
| * | 2624 | 1803 | 51/2 | 38 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 2675 | 1803 | 51/2 | Mallams Auction July 96 | |||||
| 1804 | 51/2 | 41 | Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne | D | ||||
| 1804 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| 2524 | 1804 | 51/2 | Christies 21 Nov 83 | |||||
| 2725 | 1804 | Music desk only! | UK | |||||
| * | 2804 | 1804 | 51/2 | 39 | Sotheby Nov 89 lot 187 | |||
| 2805 | 1804 | |||||||
| 2816 | 1804 | Private Collection | Wien | |||||
| 2844 | 1804 | 51/2 | Sotheby May 77 lot 379 | |||||
| 2845 | 1804 | Private Collection | ||||||
| * | 2851 | 1804 | 51/2 | Hochschule Music, Linz | A | |||
| 2861 | 1804 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| * | 2894 | 1804 | 51/2 | Sotheby Oct 99 Lot 70 | ||||
| * | 2970 | 1804 | 51/2 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| * | 3027 | 1804 | 51/2 | 40 | Museum of Fine Art Boston | USA | ||
| 1805 | 51/2 | 46? | UK | |||||
| 1805 | 51/2 | Sotheby Nov 96 Lot 43 Broadwood? | ||||||
| 1805 | 6 FF-f | 42 | Ringve Museum Trondheim | Nor | ||||
| 2975 | 1805 | 6 FF-f | 45 | Doddington Hall | UK | |||
| 3048 | 1805 | Music Museum Stockholm | SW | |||||
| 3098 | 1805 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| * | 3174 | 1805 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 3186 | 1805 | 51/2 | Sotheby May 81 lot 521 | |||||
| 3206 | 1805 | 51/2 | 43 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| 3228 | 1805 | 51/2 | Private Collection | Swe | ||||
| * | 3241 | 1805 | 51/2 | Sotheby Dec 91 lot 121 | ||||
| * | 3242 | 1805 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 3251 | 1805 | 51/2 | 44 | National Trust | UK | ||
| * | 3356 | 1805 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 1806 | 51/2 | Sotheby Apr 83 lot 154 | ||||||
| 1806 | 51/2 | 52 | Same as Clinkscale No 51? | USA | ||||
| 3360 | 1806 | 51/2 | 47 | Schubert Club? | USA | |||
| * | 3378 | 1806 | 51/2 | 48 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 3404 | 1806 | 51/2 | Private Collection | F? | ||||
| 3448 | 1806 | 51/2 | 49 | Sotheby Nov 89 lot 193 | F? | |||
| 3500 | 1806 | 51/2 | 50 | Museum of Art Columbia SC | USA | |||
| 3541 | 1806 | 51/2 | 51 | Col Williamsburg Fdn Va | USA | |||
| 3585 | 1806 | |||||||
| * | 3597 | 1806 | 51/2 | 53 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 3610 | 1807 | 51/2 | 54 | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien | Aus | |||
| 3694 | 1807 | 51/2 | Private Collection | NL | ||||
| 3717 | 1807 | |||||||
| 3806 | 1807 | Vienna? | Aus | |||||
| 388(9)1 | 1807 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 3890 | 1807 | 51/2 | 55/7 | D Leigh E Music May 87 | ||||
| * | 3992 | 1807 | 51/2 | RAM CCT National Trust | UK | |||
| 1808 | 51/2 | 64 | GNM Nurnberg | D | ||||
| 1808 | 51/2 | 66 | Edward Dean Museum CA | USA | ||||
| * | 3926 | 1808 | 51/2 | 60 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 3936 | 1808 | 6 | RIAM Dublin | Ir | ||||
| 3941 | 1808 | 51/2 | ||||||
| 3979 | 1808 | 5 | Philips Apr 97 | |||||
| 4029 | 1808 | 51/2 | ||||||
| * | 4030 | 1808 | 6 | 58 | Horniman Museum London | UK | ||
| 4032 | 1808 | 51/2 | 63 | Metropolitan Museum New York | USA | |||
| 4034 | 1808 | 51/2 | 59 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| 4037 | 1808 | |||||||
| * | 4050 | 1808 | 51/2 | 61 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| * | 4099 | 1808 | 6 | 62 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 4100? | 1808 | 51/2 | 77 | |||||
| 4101 | 1808 | 51/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 4113 | 1808 | |||||||
| * | 4295? | 1808 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 4304 | 1808 | Private Collection | USA | |||||
| 4332/92 | 1808 | 6 | ex Finchcocks | UK | ||||
| 4448 | 1809 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 4553 | 1809 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 1810 | 6 | 71 | Ann Arbor MI | USA | ||||
| 1810 | 51/2 | 70 | Henry Ford Museum Dearborn MI | USA | ||||
| * | 4773 | 1810 | 6 | Private Collection | D | |||
| 4900 | 1810 | 6 | 68/9 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 4925 | 1810 | 6 | 67 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 4959 | 1810 | 6 | Conservatoire Brussels | B | ||||
| 1811 | 74 | Huntingdon Galleries WV | USA | |||||
| 5034 | 1811 | 51/2 | 73 | Smithsonian/White House | USA | |||
| 5170 | 1811 | 6 | 75 | Music Dept Stanford Univ CA | USA | |||
| 5362 | 61/2 | Private Collection | AU/lia | |||||
| * | 5557 | 1812 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 5586 | 1812 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 5587 | 1812 | 51/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 5600 | 1812 | Private Collection | NL | |||||
| 5615 | 1812 | 6 | National Trust | UK | ||||
| 5816 | 1812 | |||||||
| 5835 | 1813 | 6 | 76 | Private Collection | USA | |||
| 5850 | 1813 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| 1814 | 6 | 80 | ex Mickleburgh Bristol | |||||
| * | 5922 | 1814 | 6 | 78 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| * | 6066 | 1814 | 6 | Japan? | J | |||
| * | 6246 | 1814 | 6 | Colt Bethersden | UK | |||
| * | 6274 | 1814 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 6546 | 1814 | 6 | 82 | Handel Haus Halle | D | |||
| 1815 | 83 | |||||||
| 6736 | 1815 | 6 | 84 | GNM Nurnberg MIR 1124 | D | |||
| 1816 | 6 | 86 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 1816 | 6 | 87 | Private Collection | D | ||||
| * | 6778 | 1816 | 6 | 85 | Private Collection | UK | ||
| 6802/8 | 1816 | 6? | 88 | Music Museum Berlin | D | |||
| * | 6838 | 1816 | 6 | National Trust | UK | |||
| * | 6850 | 1816 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 6942 | 1816 | 6 | 89 | Williamsburg Coll Va | USA | |||
| 6948 | 1816 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 6966 | 1816 | 6 | 90 | Sotheby Apr 87 lot191 | ||||
| 1817 | 6 | 94 | Private Collection | D | ||||
| 6995 | 1817 | ? | 91 | Private Collection | Can | |||
| * | 7023 | 1817 | 6 | 92 | Ann Arbor MI | USA | ||
| 7042 | 1817 | 6 | National Trust | UK | ||||
| * | 7076 | 1817 | 6 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 7121 | 1817 | 6 | Beethoven Haus Bonn | D | |||
| 7252 | 1817 | 6 | ( Colt ) | |||||
| 7313 | 1817 | 6 | H-schule fur Music Vienna | Aus | ||||
| * | 7362 | 1817 | 6 | 93 | "Beethoven" BudaPest | Hun | ||
| 7376 | 1817 | |||||||
| 7393 | 1817 | ex Colt? Bethersden | ||||||
| 1818 | 6 | Sotheby Apr 83 lot 163 | ||||||
| * | 7642 | 1818 | 6 | 95 | Private Collection? | UK | ||
| 7676 | 1818 | 6 | Private Collection | |||||
| * | 7678 | 1818 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 7695 | 1818 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| * | 7895 | 1819 | 6 | 96 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 8056 | 1819 | |||||||
| 8066 | 1819 | 101 | Sotheby May 86 | |||||
| * | 8074 | 1819 | 6 | 97 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 8155 | 1819 | 6 | Sotheby Nov 79 lot 162 | |||||
| * | 8165 | 1819 | 6 | 98 | Colt Bethersden | UK | ||
| 1820 | 6 | 100 | ? | |||||
| 1820 | 6 | 102 | Kunitachi Coll of Music Tokyo | J | ||||
| 8258 | 6 | Private Collection | Au | |||||
| 8341 | 1820 | |||||||
| 8347 | 1820 | 6 | Private Collection | F | ||||
| 8382 | 1820 | 6 FF-f | National Trust. | UK | ||||
| 8525 | 1820 | 61/2 | 99 | Manskopfsches Museum Frankfurt | D | |||
| 8553 | 1820 | 6 | Sotheby Nov 92 Lot 455 | |||||
| 8564 | 1821 | Private Collection | ||||||
| 8569 | 1821 | 6 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 8655 | 1821 | 6 | 103 | Furman Univ SC | USA | |||
| 8721 | 1821 | 6 | Philips 1999 | J | ||||
| * | 8948 | 1821 | 6 | Colt Bethersden | UK | |||
| 8967 | 1822 | 6 FF-f | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 9059 | 1822 | 61/2 | D Leigh E Music Nov 90 | |||||
| 9197 | 1822 | 61/2 | National Trust | UK | ||||
| * | 9210 | 1822 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 9248 | 1822 | 61/2 | Music Academy,Moss,Norway | N | ||||
| * | 9260 | 1823 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| * | 9356 | 1823 | 61/2 | Finchcocks Goudhurst | UK | |||
| * | 9595 | 1824 | 61/2 | Colt Bethersden | UK | |||
| 9614 | 1824 | 61/2 | Private Collection | |||||
| 9644 | 1824 | 61/2 | Sotheby Jun 78 Lot 59 | Switz | ||||
| 9876 | 1824 | USA? | ||||||
| 9951 | 1825 | Private Collection Chile | ||||||
| 10343 | 1825 | 61/2 | Private Collection | NL | ||||
| 10416 | 1825 | |||||||
| 1826 | 61/2 | GNM Nurnberg | D | |||||
| 1826 | 61/2 | Royal Northern College Music Manchester | UK | |||||
| 10497 | 1826 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| 10723 | 1826 | 61/2 | Sotheby March 80 lot 287 | |||||
| 10829 | 1826 | 61/2 | ex Colt Sotheby 95 | |||||
| 1827 | Private Collection | NL | ||||||
| 10991 | 1827 | 61/2 | Sotheby May 86 lot 135 | |||||
| 11186 | 1827 | 61/2 | Metropolitan Museum New York | USA | ||||
| 11221 | 61/2 | Private Colln | Austria | |||||
| * | 11301 | 1827 | 61/2 | Colt Bethersden | UK | |||
| 11400 | 1827 | Private Collection Ireland | ||||||
| 11815 | 1828 | Private Collection | UK | |||||
| 11733 | 1829 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| 11917 | 1829 | |||||||
| 12013/5 | 1829 | Morley London (1981) | ||||||
| 12127 | 1829 | 61/2 | Sotheby Nov 75 lot 59 | |||||
| 11909 | 1830 | 61/2 | ||||||
| * | 12080 | 1830 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 12105 | 1829 | 61/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| * | 12245 | 1830 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||
| 12317 | 1830 | 61/2 | Private Collection F? | |||||
| 12800 | 1831 | |||||||
| 12915 | 1832 | 61/2 | Private Collection | USA | ||||
| 12970 | 61/2 | Philips Auction July '00 | ||||||
| 1832 | Colt | |||||||
| 13346 | 1834 | |||||||
| 13589 | 1835 | 6? | Private Collection | |||||
| 13723/37 | 1835 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | ||||
| * | 14305 | 1837 | 61/2 | Private Collection | UK | |||