Gustave Lyon

See also: Lyon (homonymy)

Gustave Lyon (November 19th, 1857 - 1936) is a acoustics expert French, director of the factory of musical instruments Pleyel and inventor of several musical instruments.

Gustave Lyon east civil engineer of the mines. He is graduate Polytechnic school of Paris in 1877, then of the School of the mines of Paris in 1879.

He directs the House Pleyel as from 1887, and thus succeeds Auguste Wolf, the associate of Camille Pleyel. Thereafter, Gustave Lyon will marry the girl of Auguste Wolf.

Gustave Lyon is a pionner architectural acoustics. Thanks to its many research, it developed acoustics of several concert halls. From 1925 to 1927, it conceived famous the Salle Pleyel located Rue of the Suburb-Saint-Honore at Paris, and whose acoustics, decoration and the configuration, were considered as revolutionists during his inauguration in 1927. The musical critic as well as the architect Le Corbusier greeted the acoustic success of the room.

He is also at the origin of numerous musical instrument, of which double pianos, pianos with double keyboard, harpsichords, toothings-stone chromatic, chromatic drinking cups and electropneumatic chimes.

Gustave Lyon is in addition the grandfather of the producer of télévison Gilbert Carpentier.

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Biography of Gustave Lyon, by the school of the mines of Paris

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