Pleyel from 1869

[Cy Shuster]

It's beautiful!  I particularly like the tone of the first treble note.
What size is the piano?  Wooden frame, or metal plate?  To my (untrained)
ear, it doesn't sound like typical low tension fortepiano strings (was the
tension raised in the rescaling?).

--Cy Shuster, TSO--
Rochester, MN


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:26 AM
Subject: Pleyel from 1869


> Hi list
>
> Just got my complimentary copy of a CD produced here in Norway. Ketil
> Bjørnestad and Ole Paus decided to do a CD on a old Pleyel forte grand
from
> 1860. This piano was put back into playing condition about 15 years ago.
To the
> dismay of some and pleasure of others this included a complete rescaling
of the
> instrument and inclusion of some modern action parts.