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Pleyel et Cie is a French piano manufacturer.

Early history
Ignace Pleyel, an Austrian composer, pianist, and violinist of some prominence, settled in Paris in 1795 and established the Maison Pleyel, a music shop and publishing house. In 1807 the firm diversified into the manufacture of pianos, adopting and improving upon the model of English pianos popular at the time, and introducing the upright piano to France. Between 1811 and 1815 the firm engaged the services of Jean Henri Pape, a french Piano maker and prolific inventor, who would go on to establish his own piano making business in 1819. Ignace's son, Camille Pleyel, who achieved some notability in his own right as a piano virtuoso, was greatly involved in the running of the firm from an early age, which from 1 January 1815 traded under the name "Ignace Pleyel et fils aîné".