Pianos.

According to the Romantic Pianos Blog the piano pictured to the right is an 1845 Broadwood, which was part of the company's hire fleet.

The first person to have hired the piano was Lady Charlotte Canning, AKA Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria. The second person was Lindsay Sloper.

Chopin played a similar piano in England for his final tour [1848] but in 1848 this Piano was in the home of the Polish patriot Leon Jablonski who lived close by to the Piccadilly apartment in which Chopin was staying. "Knowing that Chopin usually went to call on his fellow patriots, it is likely that he may have had played this piano."

Lindsay Sloper "was one of the very few students which Chopin received in England in 1848 receiving free lessons from him and later acting as conductor of the London Orchestra for the concert Chopin held during the same year. Sloper also holds a place in Chopin's history as being the man who presented Jane Stirling to him."

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