Inside the building in Biddenden, near Ashford, is a treasure trove of 26 quirky and rare pianos, amassed over a lifetime by Californian David Winston. What he does say is that other major commissions have included restoring the French Pleyel piano belonging to his "great hero" Frederic Chopin. A selection of pianos are seen on display at royal piano restorer David Winston's workshop in Biddenden in south-east England. Pianist Xiaowen Shang plays a 1929 Pleyel double grand piano, made in Paris, formerly purchased for Madeliene Lioux Malraux, wife of the French novelist and politician Andre Malraux, at royal piano restorer David Winston's workshop. A gorgeous piano decorated with red and gold chinoiserie from 1925 plays piano rolls, a once-popular technology that allows a piano to play music automatically.
