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Pianos Cymru

154 High Street
Cardiff, South Glamorgan ll49 9NU
Wales/Cymru

PianosCymru is an award winning piano dealership in the NorthWest Wales area, we are family firm dating back over
28 years.

Gardner Piano Specialists

266 North Road
Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF14 3BL
Wales/Cymru

May we offer some advice that may be useful when buying your first, second or twenty-second piano?

Karen Cox

St Mellons
Cardiff
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Wales/Cymru

Karen is a friendly piano and keyboard teacher with many years of experience. She welcomes pupils of all levels from beginner to grade 8, and has an ...

Daniella Ehrlich


Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF23 5HZ
Wales/Cymru

I am a professional Opera singer with Welsh National Opera who teaches singing and piano to all levels and all ages. I focus strongly on technique and...

David Pert (MA Edu, dipMTTP, BMus(RWCMD), dipABRSM(PfT)

49
Canada Road
Cardiff, South Glamorgan CF14 3BX
Wales/Cymru

I am a Cardiff based teacher with many years experience working with people of all ages and backgrounds, with one goal... understanding and playing ...

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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.