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Pleyel, The World’s oldest piano maker
Pleyel, The World’s oldest piano maker
PLEYEL, the oldest piano manufacturer in the world (since 1807) and the only one in France. It aims at producing high-end grand pianos. Also, it provides a rare, unique and contemporary design with a high quality of acoustics for people looking for refined music instruments, elegant Art de vivre, collector’s pieces.
First of all, Pleyel was a renowned musician and composer from the late eighteenth century onwards with 41 symphonies and 70 quartets, quintets, and operas to his name. At his death in 1831, Pleyel had become an established piano supplier to Empress Josephine and all the European courts.
Today, all Pleyel pianos are 100% French made. Also, approved technicians and piano makers are in charge of producing Pleyel. And all involving more than twenty skills and crafts like luthiery, cabinet working, varnish, precious veneers, marquetry, decor paint, lacquer and using the most innovative technologies.
With more than 270.000 pianos produced, Pleyel remains the piano of Chopin, with a refined colorful tone. It is one of the 1,000 companies with the French State label of Living Heritage Company.
In addition, as an editor, Pleyel has built up one of the rarest collection of pianos, requiring rare skills, designed by renown designers (Andrée Putman, Hilton McConnico, Michele De Lucchi, Peugeot Design Lab), visual artists (Marco Del Re, Aki Kuroda, Maarten Baas) and interior designers (Alberto Pinto, rendition of Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann).
Each of these instruments is produced according to the 3 models of the Pleyel pianos Classic Range: from 1.70 meters to 2.04 meters long. As a result, the Pleyel company will sell and deliver pianos all over the world.
In 2010, designer Hilton McConnico launched a high-end furniture line. Consequently, the collection expanded with many others, including some special orders for Hermes (Denis Montel for RDAI):
In 2014, A revolutionary Piano was born …. Thus, Pleyel teamed up with Peugeot Design Lab to create the best-looking piano in the world.
Unlike most whopping great grand pianos, you can actually see the pianist’s hands from almost every angle. The shape is, according to Peugeot, reminiscent of the aerodynamic hull of a boat. Peugeot reckons the most innovative bit of this pianistic marvel is the “lowering of the chord mechanism to line up perfectly with the keyboard,” which apparently means the pianist can hear it much more clearly, as can everyone else. Hence, there will be special order for this piano.
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