In 1709 the Italian Bartolomeo Kristofori invented the first piano.
At the end of the XVIII century composers and musicians started feeling the need for a new type of KEYBOARD, which could be as expressive as violin. Moreover, a necessary tool with a large dynamic range, capable of thunderous fortissimo, the most subtle and delicate pianissimo and dynamic transitions.
These dreams became a reality when in 1709 the Italian Bartolomeo Kristofori, engaged in musical instruments making for the Medici family, invented the first piano. He named his invention “gravicembalo col piano e forte”, which means “keyboard instrument that plays gently and loudly.” The name was subsequently reduced, and it became “piano”. Later, similar instruments have been created by music teacher from Germany Kristoforom Gottlieb Shreterom (1717) and Frenchman Jean-Marius (1716).
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