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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.

Object Details Description (Brief) This harpsichord was made by an unknown maker in Italy, in 1654. It is a single manual harpsichord with a compass of CC/EE - f3, and a disposition of 2 x 8’. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...