Chopin’s piano found in country house
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.“It came as a bolt from the blue,” said British collector Alec Cobbe after discovering that the piano he bought 20 years ago for £2000 is a piece of musical history.
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.
