Definition of "music-stool" [music-stool]

• A stool, often with an adjustable seat, for a performer on the pianoforte or similar instrument. Also music-chair. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She had been seated at an ivory pianoforte on a mother-of-pearl music-stool, trying a sonata of Herz."
• "When Miriam, returning to the mother-of-pearl music-stool, at a signal from her brother, touched the silver and enamelled keys of the ivory piano, and began to sing, Lord Codlingsby felt as if he were listening at the gates of Paradise, or were hearing Jenny"
• "Fat or thin, laughing or melancholy, on horseback or the music-stool, it was all the same to the Major."