September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
book
The Daily Book of Classical Music
by Leslie Chew, Scott Spiegelberg, Dwight DeReiter, Cathy Doheny, Colin Gilbert, Greenwood, Travers Huff, Susanna Loewy, Melissa Maples, Jeff McQuilkin
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DAY 246 | BASIC INSTRUMENTS |
The Piano
300 YEARS OF TICKLING THE IVORIES
Bartolomeo Cristofori, keeper of the instruments at the Medici court in Florence, Italy, is credited with making the first working piano in 1700. Referred to as the pianoforte, it produced sound by way of strings struck by hammers, combining the expressiveness of the clavichord with the loudness of the harpsichord.
The piano became popular in the mid-1700s with composers like J. S. Bach, and by the late 1700s manufacturing had flourished in Austria. With a soft, clear tone and delicate action, the Viennese pianos of Mozart’s era were made with wooden frames, used two ...
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