Instrument: Pleyel grand piano

Pleyel grand piano

Serial number 15270, made in 1848
Rosewood veneer
Nameboard: Ignace Pleyel & Cie. / PARIS / MÉDAILLES D'OR 1827, 1834, 1839 ET 1844
Range: 6⅔ octaves CC - a4, straight-strung scale
Iron bracing along bentside plus four lengthwise and two crosswise bars
Single-escapement English action
Una corda and damper pedals
"Fausse table" covering strings
Previously owned in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Indigenous repertoire: Chopin in particular, also Liszt, Fauré, etc.

ANDREW WILLIS pianist