88 Keys
Subtitle: The Making of a Steinway Piano
Contributors: Rodica Prato (Illustrator)
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: December 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780756787431
Subjects: Music; Art  / Performing Arts; Musical Instruments - Piano
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.