Pleyel Turns the Last Page?

A Pleyel was Chopin s favorite piano; he once said, when I m feeling energetic and strong enough to find my own sound, I need a Pleyel piano. Ignaz Pleyel, a student, friend and confidant of Franz Josef Haydn, began producing pianos in 1807. His innovations include the first upright pianos in France, the sustained sound and metallic frames. In addition to Chopin, such luminaries as Stravinsky, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Liszt and Grieg made Pleyel pianos their darlings too. Watch pianist Janina Fialkowska introduce and play a 1848 Pleyel grand piano: Pleyel closing the Saint-Denis Workshop After more than 200 years producing 250,000 of the highest-quality pianos in the French tradition, Pleyel will be closing the doors of its one remaining factory. Undercut by business is war tactics from Asian piano makers, Pleyel s insistence on producing hand-crafted, tailor-made works of art instead of mass-produced models failed. The company s spokesman and manufacturing head, Bernard Roques,

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