1. The Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is credited with the invention of the piano in 1726, and called it gravicembalo col piano e forte, or "harpsichord that plays soft and loud.

Playing a Flemish virginal and an Italian harpsichord, the enterprising Skip Sempé has produced a fluid and involving conspectus of Renaissance sounds, with the instruments, recording ...

Don’t ask questions, we’re not sure why. Scarlatti (1685-1757) was heralded as the ‘greatest Italian harpsichord composer of his time’. Although the Baroque composer composed in a variety of musical ...

The piano is arguably the single most important instrument of Western music. It is an incredibly versatile instrument, capable of playing virtually anything an orchestra can. The world’s oldest ...

The harpsichords Elena meets in The Harpsichord Diaries are inspired by instruments that have counted as some of Funaro’s own musical companions. Virginia Virginal is an Italian Virginal built by the ...

Many makers operate as a one-man band or as a partnership, but the Italian harpsichord maker Guido Bizzi works on an altogether different scale. He began his career as an engineer working in the ...

The standard harpsichord is wing shaped, has as many as four or five sets of strings and up to 63 keys. One virginal is going to an amateur musician in New York. This Italian harpsichord is going ...

Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is considered to be the inventor of the piano. Snopes readers asked us if the piano was indeed originally referred to as the pianoforte. We learned ...

So the Orlando artist and guitar-builder is spending the summer building two Italian virginals – rectangular versions of the traditional wing-shaped harpsichord. Cole, a ceramic artist by trade ...

Most of his clients are music teachers and teaching institutions in Europe and the U.S., including Portland State University, which has one of his Italian-style harpsichords. Others include ...