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SUSAN LEE B.Mus(hons) M.Mus


Wandsworth, London SW18 4GA
England

A knowledgeable, attentive and enthusiastic teacher with 20 years of teaching experience. As well as being a teacher and performer, I have experience ...

SWS Music

148-150 Penwith Road
Wandsworth, London SW184QB
England

Music lessons with SWS Music
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Lessons in SW18 centre
Experienced DBS checked tutors
ABRSM Trinity grade exam coaching
All styles ages and ...

Antiques and Piano Restoration

Unit A01 Riverside Business Centre
Wandsworth, London SW18 4UQ
England

Restorers of fine antique furniture. Purveyors of a high quality French polishing service for pianos and antiques furniture in London and the ...

David Harrod LRAM


Wandsworth, London SW18
England

I have been teaching children and adults the piano for 30 years. As well as teaching, my work includes accompanying dance classes, cabaret singers ...

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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.