Montal Upright Piano

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A Gorgeously Decorated and inlaid upright piano made by Montal Paris ***1. This upright piano was displayed and won Montal an award medal the same year. The upright is made of numerous different types of fruit wood, and exotic woods. Flower and birds are inlaid all over the case on all sides followed by gilt bronzes. This piano is also built with a transpositor system made by this famous and well known maker of pianos. This piano was shown in the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in ***1 where Montal won the gold medal for his unique and beautiful pieces. Claude Montal Born La Palisse, *8th July ***0, died Paris? **8 March ***5 Musical instrument maker in Paris. Blind from early child hood, Montal attended a school for the blind in Paris. There he learned how to play several musical instruments, and to tune and rebuild pianos and organs. In ***4, while connected with the school, he wrote and published his important treaties on tuning L&#**9;art d&#**9;accorder soi meme son piano Montal established his own shop in ***5.Within four years he employed a dozen workmen, who finished some **2 pianos a year; including grands, squares, and uprights. Montal received a bronze medal at the Paris exhibition in ***4 and silver in***9; and in London Great Exhibition of ***1 he was presented with a second class medal for three cottage pianos with expression pedals. The morning Chronicle, London *0 June ***1, remarked for his blindness. Montal invented several improvements, including a repetition action and a transposing piano. Montals ***8 patent also illustrated his system for placing the soundboard above the strings, with the hammers striking them from below, and including a system of metal bracing bars, the wrest plank being made of metal and wood. His ***1 addition no ***1 included his Pedal Expression, which softened the sound by shortening the hammer blow against the strings.