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Rimmers Music Ltd (Leyland)

Ambrose House
20, Chapel Brow,
Preston, Lancashire PR5 2NE
England

We have been Established 30 years and have a vast knowledge of the Music Industry from purchasing, advising, performing, supporting, managing, ...

The Music Cellar

12 Fox Street,
Preston, Lancashire PR1 2AB
England

Our new website offers a range of our products at fantastic prices. If you can't find something you're looking for here, please contact us and we may ...

Janet Saint-Agnan


Preston, Lancashire PR1 9FF
England

I have been a teacher in a local secondary school for 18 years. Before that, I taught piano privately, whilst bringing up my three children. I will ...

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Dan Yates Music Tuition


Preston, Lancashire
England

Experienced local Musician from Preston charging affordable rates for those interested in learning a new instrument. My service's teach a full range ...

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A&C Hamilton Musical Instruments

946-950 Blackpool Rd,
Lea
Preston, Lancashire PR2 1XN
England

A&C Hamilton Musical Instruments is Located in Preston, Lancashire, we are a musical instrument specialist and have been trading for over 30 years.r ...

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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.