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❗️ World Piano Day sale | “Chopin’s Piano” The album Chopin's Piano with photos by Wojciech Grzędziński shows the process of building a copy of an instrument from the Fryderyk Buchholtz workshop - from the time of selecting appropriate wood to the moment of mounting the tablet reading ‘Fryderyk Buchholtz in Warsaw' on the finished piano. The whole is filled out with an expansive historical sketch authored by Prof. Beniamin Vogel, a distinguished expert on period pianos. “We know relatively quite a lot, yet at the same time very little, about the piano that Fryderyk Chopin had at home – the least about the instrument he used before 1828. Why is this important to us? Well, if we wish to recreate, be it only in approximation, the original sound of Chopin’s music from those times, we must return to that instrument and the state of its development, in terms of both technology and sound. And it differed considerably from the grand pianos played on concert platforms in our time. Whilst we attach great weight to the piano on which a virtuoso displays his or her skills today, we sometimes fail to realise the great importance which the flaws and advantages of the instrument had for Chopin and his peers. The pianos available to them, although perfect in the musical world at the time, were still far from modern-day instruments in terms of design, sound and technical capacities.” - Beniamin Vogel You can now get the album for less than half of its regular price in our online store 👉 http://sklep.nifc.pl

On the profile · Mar 26, 2026