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Chas Foulds & Son (Derby) Ltd

40 Irongate,
Derby, Derbyshire DE1 3GA
England

Charles Foulds opened the first Foulds shop in Chapel Bar, Nottingham in 1893, when he bought the Nottingham branch of William Orme's business.

Geoff Willett

18 Cavendish Avenue
Allestree
Derby, Derbyshire DE22 2AQ
England

I trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and have over 40 years teaching experience from beginners to diploma level. I also work as an ...

Wheathills

Brun Lane
Derby, Derbyshire DE22 4NE
England

All of our work is carried out using traditional methods and traditional materials. We are happy to work on non-piano items.

Foulds Piano Hire

39-40 Irongate
Derby, Derbyshire DE1 3GA
England

Rental-Hire is Foulds' speciality, with schemes covering everything from pianos to piccolos, and literally thousands of youngsters have started their ...

Alice Letts


Derby, Derbyshire
England

Piano lessons and ultimate music theory

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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.