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
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