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In Cristofori's pianos, there are two strings per note throughout the compass. Modern pianos use three strings in the mid and upper range, two in the upper bass, and one in the lower bass, with greater variation in thickness than Cristofori used.
Three pianos by Cristofori survive, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1720; 89.4.1219); at the Museo Strumenti Musicali in Rome (1722); and at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of Leipzig University (1726). The Metropolitan’s Cristofori, the oldest surviving piano, is in a plain wing-shaped case, outwardly resembling a harpsichord.
Well, ask yourself – how many readers are there for Harpsichord Addict? Of course, in the following three centuries there are been updates to Cristifori’s original design, mainly in the use of new materials.
Aug 1, 2019 · The piano first known as the pianoforte evolved from the harpsichord around 1700 to 1720, by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori. Harpsichord manufacturers wanted to make an instrument with a better dynamic response than the harpsichord.
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Mar 14, 2019 · This breakthrough revolutionized music. The sophisticated features we see in today’s pianos, including mechanisms that hold the hammer away from the string after striking and dampers that silence strings that aren’t in use, were all developed by Cristofori and found in his original work.
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A comparison of the 1711 drawing and the hammer actions of the three surviving pianos shows that Cristofori not only made radical changes between 1709 and 1720 but also that he continued to make smaller changes between 1720 and 1726.
