Piano.  John Eysenbach moved to Allen County, Ohio from Germany in 1851.  He traveled by ship from New Orleans to the Ohio River and then took the Miami-Erie Canal to his new residence near Delphos , Ohio .  He brought with him his wife, five children, and this piano.  John took up farming but he also taught astronomy, mathematics, entomology, and his first love, music.  He was Allen County ’s first piano teacher.

This Balthauser-Vierheller Piano was made in Darmstadt in 1839.  It has 73 keys instead of 88, and a knee lever, rather than a foot pedal, operates its dampers. 

What other types of musical instruments might have been in pioneer homes?