If you have a piano that looks like this, congratulations, you have an instrument that is quite rare in Australia. If you would like to have it totally restored, then you have come to the right place.
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The Collard and Collard firm descended from Longman & Broderip and then Clementi & Co and was run by the brothers William Frederick and Frederick William. They originally worked with Muzio Clementi and took over the company after Clementi’s death in 1832.
Continue readingA consortium led by Muzio Clementi bought out the interest of ‘Longman & Broderip’, after they were declared bankrupt. From 1798 square pianos appeared bearing the new company name Longman, Clementi & Company. After Longman’s death in 1803, the business empire he had lost now traded under the name Muzio Clementi & Co.