Pleyel... Adieu

...too bad, I didn't know it

Am I mistaken, or wasn't Pleyel more or less "dead" for decades?

eh gianni i had heard something like that too, in fact I had heard that the 3 main French houses (pleyel erard and gaveau) intended to reunite

What do you mean, Gianni?

It seems to me that Pleyel has been controlled by Baldwin for a long time.

Excuse me, but the historic Pleyel closed in 1933, the year in which the management of the Salle Pleyel and the piano factory were effectively separated and handed over to different managements. In the following years, Pleyel was particularly successful in building clavichords during the era of the great "renaissance" (in which Pleyel was Neupert's main competitor). In the last 25 years, the Pleyel brand had returned to the scene because Schimmel had acquired several designs and started building uprights and grands "under license," instruments that are, in my opinion, beautiful (I own one of which I am very proud). The Parisian Pleyel does not seem to me to have been a great factory, but certainly "the Schimmel effect" gave it a lot of publicity. In any case, the relationship with the historic factory was only nominal, and they lived much like "fallen nobles." All in all, it is a pity to see a factory (any factory) close, but sincerely I am more concerned about factories with less nobility, which the newspapers do not talk about...

... while remaining mindful, however, that the Parisian Pleyel was the house that provided pianos to Chopin and that in fact invented, in competition with Erard, the modern piano

Ok, but if at this moment you want a Pleyel with the Pleyel tradition, you shouldn't buy a Pleyel but a Schimmel/Pleyel, which at least draws from that design school....