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...pardessus de viole (high-pitched, five-stringed viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
...farm and listening to the radio, I heard the speaker say, 'And now you will hear Partita No. 1 by Bach played by Yehudi Menuhin,' and the music flew in that farm as some years before in the Opera House in Paris, or the Salle Pleyel. And I remembered your playing with Enesco and orchestra under direction of Monteux and the only remembrance of these souvenirs of mine was so hot, they swept away the winds in the country, the planes overhead, and the anti-aircraft engines, and the guns and all that sort of thing...
Fifteen years later another man came to Paris from Strasbourg where a while before the patriots had almost guillotined him. He was the 24th son of an Austrian schoolmaster. His name was Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer of 29 symphonies, friend and pupil of Haydn. For a while he ran a music shop, published the first complete edition of Haydn's quartets. Mozart wrote of him: "How fortunate music would be if Pleyel could replace Haydn," but Composer Pleyel also turned to the manufacture of pianos. He played his pianos at the great courts of Europe, turned to farming...
Last week, after 124 years of stiff competition, came word that the old firms of Pleyel and Erard had merged. Their instruments will henceforth be produced at the Pleyel works (St-Denis). Erard and Pleyel pianos are not the finest made in France (the Gaveau is considered finer). nevertheless they are first-class instruments. Pleyel owns the great modernistic Salle Pleyel in the Faubourg St-Honore...