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28-11-2011, 10:27
"Photos of Concert at the Ceremonial Hall of Academy of sciences in Budapest"  You can listen below to the clips of music played live.! Download this Music - Click here. Download this Music - Click here. For more photos and info see Full Story. 19-03-2011, 16:37
Collard, son of William and Thamosin Collard, was baptised at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, on 21 June 1772, and coming to London at the age of fourteen, obtained a situation in the house of Longman, Lukey, & Broderip, music publishers and pianoforte makers at 26 Cheapside.  In 1799 Longman & Co. fell into commercial difficulties, and a new company, consisting of John Longman, Muzio Clementi, Frederick Augustus Hyde, F. W. Collard, Josiah Banger, and David Davis, took over the business, but on 28 June 1800 Longman and Hyde retired, and the firm henceforth was known as Muzio Clementi & Co... For more info and complete Article see Full Story. 16-03-2011, 12:23
Jonas Chickering
(April 5, 1798-December 8, 1853) was an important piano manufacturer in Boston, Massachusetts.  Jonas Chickering was born April 5, 1798 in Mason Village, and raised in nearby New Ipswich, New Hampshire where his father Abner Chickering kept a farm and worked as a blacksmith. Chickering apprenticed three years as a cabinet maker with John Gould. In 1818 Chickering removed to Boston with Gould's permission, working for cabinet-maker James Baker, but one year later began working for pianomaker John Osborn at 12 Orange Street. In 1823, Chickering formed a partnership with pianomaker James Stewart; they produced 15 pianos the first year at workshops at 20 Common street and sold their first piano on June 23, 1823 for $275. Stewart & Chickering dissolved after four years, and in 1830 Chickering became associated with John Mackay (Boston Industrialist), a merchant, as well as organ and pianomaker who had worked with Alpheus Babcock, doing business as Chickering & Co. at 416 Washington street. In 1837 Chickering & Mackays (with Mackay's son William H. Mackay) built a new five story factory, with warerooms and a small concert hall, at 334 Washington Street, and warehouse at Franklin square... For more info and complete Article see Full Story. 1-03-2011, 09:02
Broadwood Art Cased Piano Serial Number 22426 - Year 1889  Friday 7 June 1889 Dowager Lady Harvey, Langley Park, Slough A No. 15 Grand Pianoforte made to Order in dark oak case with six legs to drawing, A to A, no. 22426 290 guineas, and a set of cups, delivered to Jackwood House, Shooters Hill... For more info and photos see full Story. 1-02-2011, 05:49
A judge has ordered withdrawn all fraudulent publicity that the composer used the instrument when he stayed on the island  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.
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