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ERARD , S$BASTIEN (17521831), French manufacturer of musical instruments
great
practical
upholsterer
harpsichord
instrument makers of eminence. Before he was twenty-five he set up in business for himself, his first workshop being a room in the hotel of the duchesse de Villeroi, who gave him warm encouragement. Here he constructed in 178o his first pianoforte, which was also one of the first manufactured in France. It quickly secured for its maker such a reputation that he was soon overwhelmed with commissions, and finding assistance necessary, he sent for his brother, Jean Baptiste, in conjunction with whom he established in the rue de Bourbon, in the Faubourg St Germain, a piano manufactory, which in a few years became one of the most celebrated in Europe. On the outbreak of the Revolution he went to London where he established a factory. Returning to Paris in 1796, -he soon afterwards introduced grand pianofortes, made in the English. fashion, with improvements of his own. In 18o8 he again visited London, where, two years later, he produced his first double
movement
instrument was an immense advance upon anything he had before produced, and obtained such a reputation that for some time he devoted himself exclusively to its manufacture. It has been said that in the year following his invention he made harps to the value of 25,000. In 1812 he returned to Paris, and continued to devote himself to the further perfecting of the two instruments
work
double
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