Thanks for the link. Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:49:44 -0700 From: agghubii at yahoo.ca To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] a video: "Introducing The Pleyel Double Grand Piano" If any of you are ever in Calgary, you can see one of these Pleyel double pianos at the Cantos Museum. http://www.cantos.ca/ Cheers, Bert --- On Thu, 4/8/10, Dr. Henry Nicolaides <drsnic4 at hotmail.com> wrote: From: Dr. Henry Nicolaides <drsnic4 at hotmail.com> Subject: [CAUT] a video: "Introducing The Pleyel Double Grand Piano" To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Received: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 12:13 PM Subject: HENRDEL sent you a video: "Introducing The Pleyel Double Grand Piano" From: service at youtube.com To: drsnic4 at hotmail.com Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:12:29 -0700 help center | e-mail options | report spam HENRDEL has shared a video with you on YouTube: Introducing The Pleyel Double Grand Piano A documentary on the setting up of the Pleyel Double Grand Piano before a concert with background music of Some Enchanted Evening played by the Mantovani Orchestra. The piano featured in this video is about 105 years old and is owned by Pertis and Egri. You'll see more of this unique grand piano in my upcoming postings. About The Piano: The Pleyel Double Grand Piano is truly a unique musical instrument, as only a handful now remain throughout the world. Some 50 double grand pianos were produced in the Pleyel piano factory in Paris but, sadly, most of these were eventually destroyed in the mayhem of two world wars. This type of musical instrument was originally developed by the company in the 19th century and the last double grand was said to have left the factory in around 1930. The two keyboards are placed at opposite ends of this 2.5 meter long instrument that weighs nearly 600 kilograms. The brilliance of the design lies in the fact that, a... more © 2010 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066 The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100409/87f15d3b/attachment.htm>
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