I love to listen to someone who is skilled at playing the piano. It's so pleasant.
I love it too, I actually play piano myself. I love the feeling of pressing down the keys, the whole mechanism is fascinating. It causes hammers to strike the strings inside the piano!
What is your favorite song to play on the piano ?
I like playing my own piano compositions the most or just improvising. Piano sounds are so soft, the Italian musical name for it comes from "piano" and "forte" which indicate "soft" and "loud".
That's interesting, do you know when the piano was first created ?
I believe it first came about around the year 1700, it was Bartolomeo Cristofori who invented it.
Wow, that's very long ago. Was it the first instrument created by man ?
Spinettone
The spinettone ("big spinet") was a kind of harpsichord invented in the late 17th century by Bartolomeo Cristofori, who was later the inventor of the piano. Other names for this instrument were spinettone da teatro ("of the theater"), "spinetta traversa" ("transverse spinet").
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The spinettone was a kind of spinet, which means specifically that its strings were placed in pairs along a diagonal relative to the position of the keyboard. The jacks that plucked the
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