Conrad, Is that available in translation? Allen ---------- >From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu> >To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> >Subject: Montal - was:Re: an old broadwood >Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 10:47 AM > > Allen, > > At 09:51 11/13/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >>I gave a chapter technical on the sostenuto pedal a few years back and in my >>research came up with the fact that Claude Montal invented the sostenuto >>pedal in 1864 in Paris, which was then improved upon and patented by >>Steinway in this country in 1875. > >>I'd like to know more about this blind inventor and piano builder. >>Allen Wright > > > The following book might give you some insight into the man: > > Montal, Claude > > L'Art d'accorder soimeme son piano, d'apres une methode pure, simple et > facile, deduite des principles exactes de l'acoustique et de l'harmonie. > J. Meissonier Paris 1836/Minkoff Geneva 1976 > > > > Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician > Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 > Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 > > - Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is > what you get from not reading it. > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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