Music Trades, April 1st, 2000
After 300 Years, The Appeal Of Cristofori's Remarkable Invention Remains Undiminished
Striving to create a more expressive harpsichord, sometime around 1700 Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the escapement action, a marvel of engineering that enabled a hammer to strike a string with varying degrees of force, at the touch of a key. When installed in a harpsichord, the escapement action created an instrument of unprecedented dynamic range and was dubbed, appropriately enough, the Piano-Forte (Italian for soft-loud). Polyphonic, infinitely versatile, and universally appealing, the piano has trans...
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