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Monaghan Music & Piano Centre Ltd


County Monaghan
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Piano Centre is the place for Yamaha and Steinhoven Grand pianos, digital pianos and pianos stools

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  • Monaghan Music & Piano Centre Ltd

    County Monaghan
    Republic of Ireland

    Piano Centre is the place for Yamaha and

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    Unit 60 The Triangle
    Wolverton Park
    Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK125FJ
    England

    We are a family run music shop in Wolverton,

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    Donaghadee, County Down BT21 0NL
    Northern Ireland

    We have a high quality range of New andAs-New

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    1a Vale Road
    Crosby, Merseyside
    England

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    81 Myddleton Rd
    London
    Bounds Green, London N22 8NE
    England

    Piano specialists offering new, used and

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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.