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Henry Trezise


Farnham, Surrey GU9 9EE
England

As a Pianist and Singer, with a vast repertoire spanning more than five decades from the 50s

Lloyd and Keyworth Music

6/7 Downing Street
Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PE
England

Lloyd and Keyworth has been retailing in Farnham since 1951. We are leading suppliers of New and used upright and grand pianos

Marina Savova Boos - Surrey Piano Studio


Farnham, Surrey GU10 4SY
England

My primary goal is to teach students how to learn, enjoy, and appreciate music. I offer private piano tuition for children and adults at all levels. I...

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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.