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MUSIC BOOK WORLD PIANO MUSIC |
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MUSIC BOOK WORLD PIANO MUSIC |
The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence, Italy. When he built his first piano is not entirely clear, but Franceso Mannucci wrote in his diary that Cristofori was working on an "arcicembal che fa il piano e il forte" ("harpsichord that plays both softly and loudly") as early as 1698. All of his surviving instruments date from the 1720s.
Like most inventions, the piano was founded on earlier technological innovations. In particular, it benefitted from centuries of work on the harpsichord, which had shown the most effective ways to construct the case, the soundboard, the bridge, and the keyboard. Cristofori was himself a harpsichord maker and well acquainted with this body of knowledge.
Cristofori's great success was to solve, without any prior example, the fundamental mechanical problem of piano design: the hammers must strike the string but not continue to touch it once they have struck (which would damp the sound). Moreover, the hammers must return to their rest position without bouncing violently, and it must be possible to repeat a note rapidly. Cristofori's piano action served as a model for the many different approaches to piano action that were to follow. www.wikpedia.org
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| Mahler, Gustav | 9 Songs for Piano with Vocals (In German) | $18.95 | |
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| Mirovitch, Alfred | 12 Easy Scarlatti Sonatas | $5.95 | |
| Handel, G. F. | 12 Pieces from Handel's Water Music | $5.95 | |
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| Huey Lewis | Doin' it All For my Baby (Used) | $2.50 | |
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