classical

 #12: A Grand Piano was not always Grand!

Loads of thick books on the history of the piano have been written. Here is a short version! Cristofori and the world’s first pianos Around 1720, the Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) invented the ’gravicembalo col piano e forte’ – harpsichord with soft and loud. By replacing the plectra of the harpsichord with small hammers (thus …

 #12: A Grand Piano was not always Grand! Les mer »

error: Content is protected !!