Manufactured with over 210 years of experience and know-how, Pleyel grand pianos are synonymous with French excellence in instrumental craftsmanship. Characterized by a romantic sound, a real Pleyel signature, these instruments offer the pianisits an unparalleled musical expression.
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An exceptional dynamicThis baby grand follows the great tradition of the F models which established the reputation of Pleyel pianos throughout the world.Endowed with a deeply refined quality of tone, which is the Pleyel signature, the sonority is extraordinarily dynamic due to a soundboard with original proportions. Its great sensitivity to lights and shades of expression along with a very precise touch make it possible to explore the entire piano repertoire.
By 1890, wealthy music lovers yearned to own two grand pianos for their salons, but most lacked the necessary floor space. Two grands were needed to perform both orchestral reductions of symphonies and piano concertos. To satisfy that demand, Pleyel and Company of Paris invented the double grand piano. The instrument combined two grand pianos into one - with two facing keyboards, and a new frame on which two sets of identical strings were mounted head-to-tail with their own bridges, but with a shared soundboard.
The Pleyel double grand owned by FMTA came to the Quad Cities by way of its last, previous owner, Joe and Thea Leclair. They acquired the piano while Joe was commissioned by the US military in Paris. Upon her passing, Thea, a lifelong member of IFMC (Iowa Federation of Music Clubs), wished that the piano would stay in the Quad Cities and be played.
In February 2010, FMTA voted to begin fundraising to restore Thea's piano. In the Fall of 2017, FMTA acquired full ownership of the piano. On November 21, 2017, the piano was moved to Premier Piano Service of Walker, Iowa, for complete restoration. On October 26, 2018, the fully restored piano returned to the Quad Cities and is currently housed at Asbury United Methodist where Thea was a member for fifty years. Research indicated this is the only Pleyel double grand piano in the Western Hemisphere on which performances are possible, allowed and welcomed.
The Kawai-EX Pro sample Library is a fabulous, powerfull and bright 9-foot (276cm) KAWAI EX concert grand piano that used to be in the Kennedy center in Washington DC. We worked closely with Lance Herring on this library (this is our second attempt after the AcademicGrand) and decided to give our project a new dimension, we carefully recorded this extraordinary instrument with 3 microphone pairs and state of the art Gear to try and recreate how powerfull and precise this instrument can be.
The AcademicGrand is a 1963 Steinway D concert grand which has seen countless recitals and concerts over the years where it served as the University of Arkansas primary concert instrument. The piano has been an inspiration to hundreds of students and visitors, and with being well-maintained and cared for, its a wonderful instrument with a unique history and classic American Steinway sound.
The A-Pian Grand piano is and old french Gaveau piano. Gaveau was a French piano manufacturer. The company was established in 1847 in Paris and used to be one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel). This particular piano was build in 1960 and is reffered to as a "crapaud" ("Petite Grand" in english), which means that its a little smaller than a "quart de queue" (baby grand). It has a very particular sound, very bright and full of inharmonicity in the bass due to the short lenght of the strings.
The B-Pian Upright is a bad, old, out of tune, mecanically unperfect but still usable upright piano. After watching a movie (we wont say which one) scene with a guy playing on an old upright and hearing what clearly was a 9 foot grand, we decided that it was time to produce that sound everybody knows, the sound of the piano you played on when you started learning the piano, the one that you were at your friends place and is taking dust and that goes out of tune in two weeks.
A Chappell grand piano purchased directly from the iconic liner Mauretania 2, when it was decommissioned in 1965. The Mauretania 2 was the largest liner built in England at the time (1939) and travelled mainly the Southampton-New York route.
This autumn, we are thrilled to be offering The David Winston Piano Collection on 23 September 2021. A highlight from the auction is a rare Pleyel double grand piano (Lot 19). In the video below, David Winston sits down with his friend and concert pianist, Dame Imogen Cooper, as they discuss Lot 19, as well as the collection as a whole. See the video at the end of article to watch the Pleyel double grand piano being played by Dame Imogen Cooper and Xiaowen Shang from the Royal Academy of Music, London.
These extraordinary pianos are two grand pianos combined in one. The enormous soundboard area makes for an exceptionally resonant instrument and the experience of two pianists playing on a single combined piano is completely different as the entire instrument responds to both players. There is also an intriguing device in which a lever can be engaged to permanently lift the dampers on one of the sides so that one piano provides sympathetic resonance while the other side is being played.
The festival aims to encourage students of all levels of FMTA teachers to play duets, duos, trios, quartets, and concertos and to expose students and their families to the rare and historic Pleyel double grand piano. The program should be an hour, with no intermission.
The Pleyel Double Grand Piano at Asbury United Methodist Church is among just seven Pleyel double grand pianos known to remain in the world, and the only playable Pleyel double grand in the Western Hemisphere. It has two separate, facing keyboards with two complete and separate sets of strings, on one shared soundboard.
The Pleyel double grand owned by FMTA came to the Quad Cities by way of its last, previous owner, Joe and Thea Leclair. They acquired the piano while Joe was commissioned by the U.S. military in Paris. Upon her passing, Thea, a lifelong member of IFMC (Iowa Federation of Music Clubs), wished that the piano would stay in the QC and be played.
On Oct. 26, 2018, the fully restored piano returned to the QC, at Asbury United Methodist where Thea was a member for 50 years. Research indicated this is the only Pleyel double grand piano in the Western Hemisphere on which performances are possible, allowed and welcomed.
Just like BMW with its DesignworksUSA creative consultancy that churns out non-automotive products ranging from computer mice to bicycles, Peugeot has launched the Peugeot Design Lab with a similar bent. The first product to come out of the studio is a futuristic baby grand piano designed for French piano manufacturers Pleyel that looks like it could beat my first car over a quarter mile.
The SpinetGrand is a direct descendant of the old-fashioned square piano. Combining compactness in size with the fine construction of a grand piano, it is noted for its exceptional sweetness of tone.
On a cold March noon he boarded a modest French ship from Le Havre. He remembered those two large words painted on the seaward wall of a factory, though Le Havre was no longer a big harbor. New York was more than a harbor. It was a big maw, a safe haven, especially for the hundreds of thousands who fled from Europe to the United States, especially from 1938 to 1942. He was one of them. He looked quite a bit older when I first met him. I know not much, even now, of his youth. It was a brown fug, most of it, he once said, though I can piece together some things he told me from time to time. He came into his world in 1914 in Moravia, then of the Habsburg Empire, and later part of Czechoslovakia, the people there German and Czech. His father was a shoe manufacturer. His mother had about her all the marks, the conditions, the characteristics of middleclass motherhood. She doted on him and protected him. He was their only child. I saw an early photograph when he must have been around ten, goodlooking, large wondering eyes, a strong nose and a definite mouth, not really childlike. Around that time he recognized--more than discovered: recognized--his attention to music. His parents got a piano teacher who came twice each week to their bourgeois flat with its black Erhard piano. There was an English teacher, too. This sounds like the life of a high bourgeois family, but it wasn't: These were not luxuries but instruments for the education of their only child. Of his elementary and then gymnasium years he said nothing, because he remembered of them little or nothing. He was a loner at school. That he knew, but there was his growing captivation with music. 2ff7e9595c
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