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Offline iumonito

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Italian pianos. Help!
on: June 06, 2008, 12:48:24 AM
I'll spend a few days in Italy this summer and I want to visit Italian piano makers.

I know of Fazioli and Borgato, but are there other makers of high-end pianos in Italy?  I remember some piano I adored, something like Fabbidini or like that, but for my life I can't remember.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Italian pianos. Help!
Reply #1 on: June 06, 2008, 01:24:59 AM
No others in Italy. In Pescara there is Angelo Fabbrini a very gifted piano technician who buys/sells Hamburg Steinways and preps them to an almost nirvana level of perfection. He prepares quite a few for the use of Schiff, Michelangeli, and Pollini.
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Re: Italian pianos. Help!
Reply #2 on: June 06, 2008, 02:39:07 AM
No others in Italy. In Pescara there is Angelo Fabbrini a very gifted piano technician who buys/sells Hamburg Steinways and preps them to an almost nirvana level of perfection. He prepares quite a few for the use of Schiff, Michelangeli, and Pollini.

Ciao Curry!

Here, this will refresh your memory.  I can't make out the name, but I do recall the typeset of the decal.

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Re: Italian pianos. Help!
Reply #3 on: June 06, 2008, 03:05:34 AM
That's one of Fabbrini's Hamburg D's with Pollini, lol.
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Re: Italian pianos. Help!
Reply #4 on: June 07, 2008, 12:08:23 PM
I was just in Italy and went to the Fazioli factory while I was there.  Unfortunately it was closed for a holiday.  It really looks like a military compound.  If I go again, I will actually want to see a piano and not just the building they are made in.
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