petzold

Updated: September 23, 2025

After the beginning of this century, the square piano became much enlarged and improved by Collard and Broadwood, in London, and by Petzold, in Paris. It was overdone in the attempt to gain undue power for it, and, about twenty years ago, sank in the competition, with the later cottage pianoforte, which was always being improved. To return to the grand pianoforte.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883