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Six - The Invention of the Piano
Stewart Pollens
Book:

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

Published online:

03 April 2022

Print publication:

21 April 2022, pp 313-361
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This chapter on the invention of the piano provides a technical description of the Arpicembalo che fa il piano e il forte, also termed the Gravecembalo, or Gravecimbalo col piano e forte, invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 and described in the Medici musical instrument inventory of 1700. The chapter includes a translation of Scipione Maffei’s article entitled “Nuova invenzione d’un Gravecembalo col piano, e forte” that appeared in the 1711 edition of the Giornale de’ letterati d’Italia. Also described in technical detail are Cristofori’s extant pianos dated 1720, 1722, and 1726. The inventive work of other claimants to the invention of the piano, Jean Marius (1716) and Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (1717) are also technically analyzed.