piano-maker

The piano's music stand is graced with the word "Leyelp" -- utter nonsense, until you decipher it as the name of the great French piano-maker Pleyel, seen in reverse.

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The piano-maker had then to work from the legs upward.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

German piano-maker, producing, in the slow, German manner, two or three excellent instruments a month; striving ever after higher excellence, and growing more and more dissatisfied with the limited sphere in which the inhabitant of a small German state necessarily works.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

The two Americans to whom music is most indebted in the United States are Jonas Chickering, piano-maker, born in New Hampshire in 1798, and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

In this extremity the owner bethought him of Jonas Chickering, who had acquired an enviable reputation for skill in his trade, and it was thought that a good cabinet-maker ought of necessity to be a clever piano-maker.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

From the time Jonas Chickering began to work for a piano-maker, he was noted for the pains and care with which he did everything.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

Chickering's name was such a power that one piano-maker had his name changed to Chickering by the Massachusetts legislature, and put it on his pianos; but Jonas Chickering sent a petition to the legislature, and the name was changed back.

Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887

On the 15th of February, 1819, without the loss of a day, he began work with a piano-maker.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

George Hews, an American composer and piano-maker, was born in

The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873

On the 15th of February, 1819, without the loss of a day, he began work with a piano-maker.

Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862