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  • Stamford Music Shop

    11, St. Mary's Hill
    Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2DP
    England

    Music shop established in 1963 we stock a large

  • Gough & Davy

    Under the City Hall
    13 Paragon Street
    Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire HU1 3NA
    England

    Gough & Davy was established as a Piano retailer

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    878 Carmarthen Road
    Swansea, Swansea SA5 8HR
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  • C. Kypreos Pianos

    5 Leopold Road
    Willesden, London NW10 9LN
    England

    Pianos of London was founded in 1975 by

  • Brittens Music New Haw

    13 The Broadway
    Woodham
    New Haw, Surrey KT15 3EU
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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.