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      37 Ranelagh Street
      Liverpool, Merseyside L1 1JP
      England

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      Knightley Farm Workshop
      Callingwood
      Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire DE13 9PU
      England

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      St. Francis Hall
      Baccabox Lane
      Birmingham, West Midlands B47 5DD
      England

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      13 The Broadway
      Woodham
      New Haw, Surrey KT15 3EU
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      53 King Street
      Cobham, Berkshire KT11 2LH
      England

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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.