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#13: Canadian Maple – for pin blocks and all things durable

While looks is not insignificant, a pleasant, long-lasting resonance is everything! Today, I’ll give you an update of the restoration process of my Dörr piano from 1830. A tricky choice: Durability or good looks? No matter how beautiful its appearance, a piano is useless if you cannot tune it properly. While many elements of an […]

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 #12: A Grand Piano was not always Grand!

Loads of thick books on the history of the piano have been written. Here is a short version! Cristofori and the world’s first pianos Around 1720, the Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) invented the ’gravicembalo col piano e forte’ – harpsichord with soft and loud. By replacing the plectra of the harpsichord with small hammers (thus

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#2: Who was the piano builder Daniel Dörr?

When purchasing an old piano, one obviously wants to know as much as possible about its original piano maker. Some early fortepiano builders are still very famous today, at least among those who are interested in piano development! Two examples would be Anton Walter, who built the last fortepiano Mozart owned, and Sebastian Erard, who

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