History of Piano

Piano is a musical instrument familiar to us who played with the fingers of the hand. The player piano called a pianist.

At the beginning created, not as loud as the sound piano piano's twentieth century, such as the piano made by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655 - 1731) made in 1720. Because the piano string tension when it is not as strong now. Now the piano is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Although the inventor who first piano, which was originally dubbed gravecembalo col piano e forte (harpsichord with soft keyboard and speak out loud), is still being debated, many people recognize, Bartolomeo Cristofori as its creator. Piano is also not the first musical instrument that uses a keyboard and work with a hit. The working principle of musical instruments like the piano has been around since 1440.

Piano himself was born of a desire to combine beauty with strength harpsichord clavichord tone. Desire that pushed Marius of Paris (1716), Schröter of Saxony (1717), and Christofori (1720) from Padua, Italy, to make the piano. However, whole and complete results are shown only Bartolomeo Christofori. Creation of the piano and harpsichord keepers Spinet (small harpsichord) in the Florentine Palace - the residence of Prince Ferdinand de 'Medici - this is the modern piano roots.

In the mid-seventeenth century the piano was made with some form. Initially, there is a design resembling a harpsichord, with soaring strings. Piano will be lower after John Isaac Hawkins modify the location to be parallel to the floor. Then, with a demand made musical instruments are lighter, less expensive, and with a lighter touch, German piano-makers respond with a square piano. Up to 1860 square piano dominates the use of the piano at home.



Order for the first piano strings using wooden frames and can only withstand voltage of the light strings. As a result, when it was built in the nineteenth century concert halls are large, the piano sound was inadequate. So, start with the piano is made of iron frames. Around the year 1800 Joseph Smith of England to make a piano with a metal frame entirely. Piano innovation capable of withstanding the string tension is very strong, so the resulting sound even louder. Around 1820, many makers using a piece of metal to the other piano. In 1822, brothers Erard patented the double escapement action, which is the famous discovery of ever relating to the workings of the piano.

In the process, before as now has 88 keys, the piano has five octaves and 62 keys. It also comes with a pedal. Original pedal was actuated with the knee. But then the foot pedal was introduced in Britain to be popular today.

A number of development continued in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. String tension, yangg originally set 16 tons in 1862, increasing to 30 tonnes on the modern piano. The result is a piano with the ability to produce a tone that never imagined Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt and even.

A real progress in the twentieth century (beginning in the 1930's) is the presence of an electronic piano (or electric piano), which is based on technology Electroacoustics or digital methods. Her tone is heard through an amplifier and loudspeaker.

In terms of sound quality, electronic piano was almost no difference with ordinary piano. The difference lies in the complete range of features. Features that would not exist at all in the ordinary piano. For example, can be linked with MIDI devices, computers, recording equipment, have a volume control plugs to the listener's head and so on.