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Edouard Mangeot (24 April 1835 – 31 May 1898) was a French
Edouard Mangeot (24 April 1835 – 31 May 1898) was a French piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
maker. Edouard was born in Nancy, France
Nancy ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Nanzisch'' is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, an ...
and died in Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. Edouard, along with his brother Alfred Mangeot, invented the double piano with mirrored keyboards. The piano consists of two keyboards, an upper and a lower. The lower keyboard replicates that of a standard piano, and the upper is a "mirror" version of it with the highest notes to the left descending to the lowest to the right. The piano was promoted by Polish composer and pianist Juliusz Zarębski
Juliusz Zarębski (3 March 185415 September 1885) was a Polish composer and pianist. Some of his manuscripts have been found in the National Library of Poland (BN).
Life
Juliusz Zarębski was born on March 3, 1854 in Zhytomyr, now Ukraine (then f ...
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Edouard Mangeot and his wife Léa-Marie-Jeanne-Christine Lapoulle had six children including the violinist André Mangeot
André Louis Mangeot (25 August 1883 – 11 September 1970) was a French-born violinist and impresario who later became naturalised in England. André's father was the piano-maker Edouard Mangeot.
Life
Born in Paris, Mangeot studied at the Conse ...
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