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A 19th-century square piano once believed to have graced the halls of Thornwood, the historic Rome estate of Shorter University’s founding benefactors Alfred and Martha Baldwin Shorter, has returned home.
The instrument was donated to the University by Monro B. Lanier III and Martha Shorter Dougherty of Huntsville, Alabama, direct descendants of the Shorter family.
The instrument, a rare Decker Brothers square piano manufactured in New York City and patented in 1863, has been installed at Shorter University’s Thornwood campus, where it now serves as both a piece of living history and a tangible connection to the University’s founding legacy…