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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.
Nine instruments that survive today are attributed to Cristofori: [16] The 1726 harpsichord with disposition 1 × 8', 1 × 4', 1 × 2', in the Leipzig museum. There are three separate bridges and three separate nuts for the eight-foot, four-foot, and two-foot string choirs. The three pianos described above.
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- Inventor of the piano
This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bar-tolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contem-porary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence.
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Apr 30, 2024 · Cristofori improved his piano to the point where, by 1726, he had arrived at all essentials of the modern piano action. His frames, being made of wood in the manner of a harpsichord, were not capable of withstanding the string tension that allowed later pianos their more-powerful tone.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Model and photo: Kerstin Schwarz. 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.
Frist piano dated from 1720 is housed in Metropolitan Museum in New York, second from 1722 can be found in Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali in Rome, and final third one made in 1726 is in Musikinstrumenten-Museum of Leipzig University.
