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Musical discovery

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In 1848, on a tour of England, Frederic Chopin brought his own piano for what would be his last great tour. When he died the next year, the piano he had used disappeared. Now, almost 150 years later, a Swiss scholar of music has discovered the piano in the collection of a British collector Alec Cobbe. Twenty years ago, Cobbe bought the piano for £2,000. Recently Professor Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger studied the ledgers of Camille Pleyel, a French piano maker and got details of the sale of Pleyel pianos. After meeting Cobbe at a conference, he checked the piano's serial number with the Pleyel ledgers to make this musical discovery.

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