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amirawad

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Beethoven piano maker

on: October 21, 2006, 11:08:38 AM

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.

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pianistimo

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Re: Beethoven piano maker

Reply #1 on: October 21, 2006, 02:03:06 PM

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?