Hi Ric. I have the same ! I have the same ! Mine is 1853 (serial 19443), but for its time, it is old fashioned : it has still a one piece bridge and the old fashioned iron strings, while at that time, other Pleyels had the newer steel and two bridges. Again, I suppose there was no one day when old model was discontinued because of a new model, and I suppose there were stocks of iron and cases that had to be exploited. How is yours ? Two bridges ? On the action of mine, there is a printed logo of "Charlier, manufacture de pianos, Paris". I believe 1850ies were a period of huge output for Pleyel (the last years of Camille, the son of Ignace), and they could have other factories in Paris (there were hundreds at that time) make Pleyel pianos in addition to the Pleyel factory output. Pleyel did continuously try many designs instead of sleeping on one good seller. Mine has a very curious cantilevered bridge. I kept the original board, full of minor cracks (flame suit on), and the original hammers (same), but I can swear you that the piano sounds very good, very musical. Pleyel-210-cm-#19443-(1853)-keyboard.jpg Best regards. Stéphane Collin. -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Brekne Sent: lundi 26 novembre 2007 20:38 To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org Subject: 1850's Pleyel Grand Hi folks. Just ran into this instrument tonite... couldnt help myself so I bought it on the spot. Wont say for how much as I really dont know whether I've paid too much or got it cheap. Its functional but will need quite a bit of work to come up to snuff. Pin block is more or less shot and I suppose the old board really has seen far better days. Looks very nice tho. The thing is from 1850 or so... serial number 18XXX http://www.pianostemmer.no/images/Pleyel.jpg Anyone having any good words of advice for me please be sure to share them either in public or in private. Cheers RicB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071127/5ba78643/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 165698 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071127/5ba78643/attachment-0001.obj
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