I enjoy playing the piano which is a very old instrument and very expensive. There are lots of famous songs that feature pianos of course.
I enjoy playing the piano too! Surprisingly, the piano is much younger than I thought. It was invented in 1700. I thought it was much much older!
I thought it was much older than that as well? I think about classical composers and feel like it should be at least a couple hundred years older than 1700.
Me too! The exact year is not known, but it was around that time. that just surprises me!
I found that the first piano was made by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698. They are complex machines though. It took us a long time to come up with the printing press as well.
Nothing is known of his early life. A tale is told that he served as an apprentice to the great violin maker Nicolò Amati, based on the appearance in a 1680 census record of a "Christofaro Bartolomei" living in Amati's house in Cremona. However, as Stewart Pollens points out, this person cannot be Bartolomeo Cristofori, since the census records an age of 13, whereas Cristofori according to his baptismal record would have been 25 at the time. Pollens also gives strong reasons to doubt the authenticity of the
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"Another nearly album. It has too much variation within the music for me to be really happy about it and again I ended up in a studio that I really didn't like that was picked by the record company at the time and so I couldn't change. There's a mixture of great playing and some very poor playing as well. Most disappointing is the piano sound as the piano in the studio was cheap and nasty. There are a couple of classic tracks on the album though such as