88 Keys - The Making of a Steinway Piano
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: October 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781574671520
Subjects: Keyboard instruments; Reference; History Of Specific Companies; Musical Instruments - Construction And Repair; Music; Music/Songbooks; Musical Instruments - Piano; History & Criticism - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General
First sentence: THE EARLIEST ANCESTOR of the modern piano is generally considered to be the instrument described in a 1700 inventory of the Florentine court as an arpicembalo che fa il piano e il forte (literally, the "harpsichord that can play quietly and loudly") and credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori, a Paduan harpsichord builder in the employ of a Medici prince.