Yesterday Martin Dalheimer did not pianists work but piano makers. Several Years ago he buyed a broadwood Upright Cottage piano with the serial numer 16297. This was because he read in Mr. Jean-Jaques Eigeldingers Book: Chopin as teacher..... that Chopin played this kind of piano when he travelled to England in 1848. On page 26 in this book ther is the well known zitat from A. Hipkins: "(Chopin) especially liked Broadwood's (boudoir) cottage pianos of that date (1848), two stringed, but very sweet instruments, and he found pleasure in playing them. And the feetnote explains on page 92: "This Broadwood model is a small upright piano (117 cm high) with vertical strings. English double escapement, a compass of six octaves (F' to f''''), and two pedals, first launched by the maker Wornum in 1811. This instrument quickly became popular in england where it was soon christened the "cottage piano". The first mention of the "boudoir" model in question appears in Broadwood's price list of January 1840 (see Harding, pp. 228-32. 382)" So, thera are a lot of intersting details but also a lot of failure in the little notes. First, the year of Chopins Upright Cottage is not 1848. It had the serial Number 1717.? or 17511, because we know that he get 3 Broadwood until engals visit. and we hav the orignially Broadwood-list from the 28 June of 1848 when Broadwood gave a grand boudoir cottage to Mr. Chopin. So ererybody thought until today, that Chopin had 3 Broadwood grands, when he worked ...
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