ABSTRACT
The nameboard is the part of the piano's CASE, just above the KEYBOARD, that bears the manufacturer's name (and often the location of the factory) in gold script. Modern pianos have the maker's name stenciled directly on the wood. Earlier pianos have very elaborate nameboards with etiquettes, or labels, inlaid into decorative satinwood or sycamore. Colorful flower paintings were popular on nameboards from about 1796 to 1807.
