Beethoven piano maker

[amirawad]

Hi everybody,

I was going to buy a piano , I found it is Beethoven piano maker, I want to know what about this mark ? I have never heard about Beethoven piano before , please tell me your opinion.

[pianistimo]

are you talking 'graf' pianos?  i think they designed something additional so that he could hear what he was playing.  i have an article on it somewhere.

didn't he also own an erard and a broadwood?

here's a site of two (erard and graf) of beethoven's pianos:  www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~simonj/lvb/piano_sonatas.html

there was a also a curious thread that mentioned robert levin as having played a different period piano for each of beethoven's piano concerto's.  knowing this - what piano do you think he premiered the fourth and fifth concerto with?  the fourth is so grand and staid and the fifth so over-the-top.  do you think that between the fourth and the fifth he obtained the graf.  i can't remember all the details.  wondering if the broadwood would have been used for the fourth?