At 13:07 3-11-00 -0700, you wrote: > My two sons restore pianos at the Chinook Keyboard Museum in Calgary >under the guidance of Bill Garlick. They are currently rebuilding a >Pleyel Duo Clave. For those who aren't familiar with this instrument, it >is a rectangular shaped grand with a keyboard and pedals at each end. One >massive plate, two complete sets of strings. The reason Bill chose to >rebuild as apposed to restore, was the piano suffered extreme water damage >and was literally in pieces. Missing most of the veneer, delaminated >blocks etc. Bob >& Sons Piano Service >Calgary, Alberta >Canada Hello Canada! Pleased to read your post. I worked on a 'vis-à-vis' Pleyel several years ago. It was built in 1898, and now it is exposed in a museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The name of this museum is "Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart", and it has a very interresting collection, if you are ever in Europe. The length of this instrument was 2.46 m (sorry, I never understand inches and feet), but I know there is or was a bigger one in Belgium, in Brussels or in Antwerpen. How long is this Calgerian instrument? "Ours" was to compare with two 1.50 m grands. It was a pleasure to work on it, and I am very pleased it is used regularly for concerts in the museum. > It is to our knowledge one of maybe 6 known to exist. Vintage is 1913. I remember there also was one in Paris or Versailles, that makes 4. Do you know the whereabouts of the others? If you like I can send you a postcard I bought in Stuttgart. In that case, please send me your post address. Greetings from Amsterdam, Albertien de Pater. (Yes yes yes, one of the 3 'femails' of the dutch list). (Happily lurking for 2 1/2 years now).
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