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Before 'S.Erard' the pianos had not such a precision, when the same note was pressed the harmonics were added to the note played before, so nothing was dry, did not have today precision in the repetition task, but stay tuned for a lot of pianos before buy, they suck at repetition, be careful with Suzuki that even the sustain pedal does not work properly.

The tip of note repetition is: what's the point of knowing when in time this mechanism was introduced, why important to know, since all Classical music, Haydn, Mozart, Czerny, even Beethoven etc, then all music made before Romanticism (1810) will have few repetitions or/and are always slow, Beethoven will inaugurate the octave for fast repeatitions, already in the Romantic period whose giants are: Chopin, Liszt, Alkan, Schumann, Mendelssohn etc, will use piano repetition of notes with speed to the extreme.
So next time when you listen, you can differentiate one more thing, it's just like looking at an oil canvas of the baroque period and seeing all that suffering in dark surroundings, while the oil canvas of rebirth with all that artificial spotlight over that illuminated Christ almost smiling on the cross.

My art teacher, a fascinating Italian woman, once said in our class: "who would paint a wrinkled old woman sitting at a fireplace, while the glow of the fire like a mirror glistening through her watery aching pupils",
her response was: "it's simple, baroque oil canvas".

Did you know that the first to produce pianos in series was Pleyel in Paris by the Austrian-French 'Ignaz Pleyel, and it was he who produced the first vertical cabinet pianos.

Back to piano repetition, a good example of this wonderful dry repetition is the introduction of Chopin's Waltz op.18, and composers such as Schumann and his difficult one Reconnessance piano piece from Carnival Op.9 would be impossible to play and even Jazz would not do well.

'Carl Bechstein' went to England when he met 'Pierre Erard' the nephew of the greatest instrument maker, the French 'Sebastian Erard', then learned a lot from the masters.
'Carl Bechstein' met Liszt and 'Hans von Bülow', beyond others, they helped him think how a piano could be better.
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Ask me why all these Germans chose to move to Paris: for where democracy worked and respect from one to each other was better. Since early it was a country in which the school was preached to all, since June 23, 1793, which advocated instruction as the right of all citizens.

It was better to go to an enlightened country where you were heard and you could manifest any thought, science or art.
That famous history of a French people that sent to the guillotine their own kings and friends, who were only commanders and did nothing, any foreigner still had more respect for the French. Worst for them if the queen was not French, which was the case of 'Marie Antoinette', who was a Germanic born in Vienna in Austria, they called her L'Autre-chienne, that literally means "another female dog", that in idiomatic english means "another bitch", when the phrase; "Austrian woman" in French is spoken; autrichienne, of course the French would not miss the joke.

But at that time, the immigrants sought a better country and produced a lot intellectually in it. Unfortunelly today, most, I said the majority, are only going to flee from their dictators and corrupt countries and don't contribute anything, they only suck, this is because we have today so much thought and maintenance of one's own culture in vogue. So please, before any criticism or stupidity, respect the foreigners who are teaching or contributing to your country. Chaplin was expelled from the USA and Einstein and Schoenberg felt better in America.
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Once I did a story in a magazine that costed me a lot of time to write and search, and there were no web sites talking about it, neither YT nor Wikipedia, the subject was how many piano makers had gone through the history of mankind, I counted each one of them, among 1116 piano manufacturers around the world, and Bechstein is among one of the best in the world.