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Richard Smith

4A Green Street
Willingham
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 5JA
England

Very experienced and reliable tuition

Children and adults

Classical training; also jazz and pop repertoire

Consistently impressive exam results...

Brian Farley

Tacet-in-Cherrygates
Hadstock
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB21 4NU
England

Cocktail Pianist for a wedding, birthday or special occasion - all music styles. East Anglia and S.E. UK. Highly experienced professional in TV, ...

Piano Lessons for all ages


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
England

I am an experienced classical piano teacher and a fully qualified secondary school teacher. My lessons are always fun & challenging - even for ...

Jamie Smith

3 Meadow Cottages
Horseheath
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB21 4QB
England

Jamie has worked as a lecturer and pianist internationally, performing as a soloist and chamber musician in many concert halls worldwide.

Jamie Smith

3 Meadow Cottages
Horseheath
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB21 4QB
England

Jamie Smith was born in Wales and whilst still at school he studied part-time at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He later read music at ...

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Did You Know Piano Facts

1709
The year 1709 is the one most sources give for the appearance of aninstrument which can truly be called a "Pianoforte." The writer Scipione Maffei wrote an article that year about the pianoforte created by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1732), who had probably produced four "gravicembali col piano e forte" or harpsichords with soft and loud. This instrument featured the first real escapement mechanism and is often called a "hammer harpsichord." The small hammers were leather covered. It had bichords throughout, and all the dampers were wedge-shaped. By 1726 he seems to have fitteda stop for the action to make the hammers strike only one of twostrings. He had produced about twenty pianos by this time and thenhe is presumed to have gone back to making harpsichords,probably from the lack of interest in his pianos. Three of hispianos remain extant today: one with four octaves, dated 1720, is in NewYork; one with four and a half octaves, from 1726, is in Leipzig,Germany; and there is one in Rome from 1722. There are approximately ten plucked instruments surviving today with the name Cristofori on them.