88 Keys - The Making of a Steinway Piano
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: September 16, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780517703564
Subjects: Keyboard instruments; Musical Instruments - Piano; Musical Instruments - Construction And Repair; Music/Songbooks; Music; Steinway piano; Piano; Music / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard; Music / Reference; Musical Instruments - General; Construction; Pianos
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.