The History of the Piano

The piano is one of the world's most well-known musical instruments. it has the elements of both a stringed instrument and a keyboar instrument.

The Cristofori piano is the smallest and the very first original piano. In 1694 Bartolomeo Cristofol was able to perfect mechanism of the hammer. He to pound a string, wich is where the sound of a piano comes from.

Sebastian Lengerer created the Viennese piano in 1773, wich had verry narrow keys. Ferdinand Hofmann improved this design by building  it with mahogany. wich gave it a lighter, delicate sound. This was the Piano that greats like Mozart and Beethoven known to play.

Over the years, the piano's many flaws were solved by a number of different piano makers. A big breakthrough came with the creation of the "double escapement" mechanism by Sebastian Erard. His Collard and Collard piano allowed notes to be played very quickly,withouth having to wit for the key to reset. Additionally, it was noticed that square-sharped or rectangular pianoshad poor or limited sound quality. So to solve the problem, piano makers began raising the lids on the square pianos to improve sound quality. This innovation is still seen in grand pianos today. In 1857, the modern Steirnway Model D piano was invented, and is very similiar to the pianos you see today. It was made from a single piece of maple, wich helped to give each individual piano a partkular sound and character.

Today's modern pianos have a total 88 keys and just 3 foot pedals - one for dampening the sound and two for sustaining the sound.

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