Historians say Ms. Landowska preferred the bulky Pleyel models not so much for their sound as for their durability ; she hauled as many as four instruments with her on trains and coaches for performances in Europe and in the United States , and once famously dragged one on a sled through a blizzard to play for Leo Tolstoy in Russia .
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