“We hope it will sing for us again,” said Aleksander Laskowski, spokesman for The Frederic Chopin Institute that houses the museum. McNulty and museum authorities believe the current work will bring it as close as possible to the sound that Chopin heard. It had most of its iron wire strings changed for much stronger and tighter modern ones during renovation in the late 1950s that destroyed its tone and put strain on the whole structure. It was played, but treated well by Chopin's family and was not used for concert performances, also because of a failed renovation attempt. Texas-born McNulty says this is the “best preserved Pleyel piano in the world,” despite having quite a dramatic history. Given the provenance and the good condition of the instrument, McNulty said it is “priceless.” It survived two world wars, including the destruction of the 1944 Warsaw Rising. The piano arrived in Warsaw in 1850 - it still bears the red customs seal of Russia that ruled Warsaw at the time. After Chopin's death in October 1849, the piano was bought by his Scottish student and friend, Jane Stirling, who then offered it to Chopin's eldest sister, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa.
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Pleyel made the instrument, with serial number 14810, available to Chopin, already seriously ailing at the time, in the fall of 1848. “We’re very, very close to the character and the identity of this instrument when we put the correct strings on, everything else being in very good condition,” McNulty told The Associated Press on Thursday. Paul McNulty is spending days at the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw filling in some cracks in the soundboard and putting in wire strings like the ones used by Paris piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel - Chopin's favorite - in 1848.
expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics. WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed in Paris is being renovated by a U.S.
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