The owners of a former monastery in Valldemossa, Mallorca, have been ordered by a judge in Palma to remove a piano which is being exhibited there as one which was used by Frederic Chopin when he lived on the island.



The famous composer arrived on Mallorca in the winter of 1838 and spent time living in the old Carthusian monastery with his lover, Aurore Dupin, the writer, George Sand. The current owners of part of the monastery have now been ordered to withdraw the ‘fraudulent publicity’ that a piano exhibited in one of the cells is one which was used by Chopin.



El Mundo newspaper indicates that the piano was not even built at the time Chopin was there and, in fact, dates from the 1850s.
A piano which is exhibited in another of the cells was, however, used by the Polish composer.