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HOW THE PIANO CAME TO BE


[Illustration: UPRIGHT HARPSICHORD

(_From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City_)]





      HOW THE PIANO
       CAME TO BE

           BY

   ELLYE HOWELL GLOVER


       ILLUSTRATED


         CHICAGO
 BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY
          1913




  COPYRIGHT, 1913
  BY BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY

  PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1913


  THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
  NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


 Upright Harpsichord                          _Frontispiece_

 Clavicytherium or Upright Spinet           _Facing page_ 12

 Clavichord                                               12

 Spinet                                                   16

 Queen Elizabeth's Virginal                               16

 Double Spinet or Virginal made by Ludovicus
 Grovvelus                                                20

 Clavichord made by John Christopher Jesse                24

 Dulcimer                                                 28

 Christofori Piano                                        32

 Piano made by Matthaeus Andreas Stein                     40

 Piano made by Benjamin Crehore                           48

 Piano made by Charles Albrecht                           50

 Piano, Primitive German Action                           52

 A Stodart Piano                                          56




HOW THE