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Chopin’s last piano found after 150 years

by Pat Coate | March 26, 2007
"It came as a bolt from the blue."
- Alec Cobbe, piano's current owner

London, England, UK - The grand piano Frederic Chopin took on his last concert tour has been found in an English country house thanks to detective work by a Swiss musical scholar.

For more than 150 years after the composer's death, Chopin's piano vanished until Professor Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger researched the ledgers of French pianomaker Camille Pleyel.

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