Piano History

 

The History of the Invention behind the Piano

    First glimpses of modern piano appeared around 1400 when Italian
musician and luthier Giovanni Spinette managed to create first
clavichord, which represent a very simple and small wooden piano.

    As dulcimer serving as original inspiration to the late medieval inventor
from Italy, first simple models of pianos were not very usable because of
their fragile construction, lack of sound drum that would increase its
sound quality and inability to provide player with the means to be
aggressive with its keyboard. Even with all those disadvantages,
this first precursor of pianos called clavichord became very well
respected in the royal and noble circles of early Renaissance Europe.
This popularity of course immediately switched in favor of Italian
pianoforte, first modern piano that was created by musician and inventor
Bartolomeo Cristofori in early 1700s. From that point on, even
though they were expensive and hard to produce, pianos became one
of the most popular instruments in Europe, fueling many inventors
to solidify piano design and enable musicians to fully invest
themselves in these incredible instruments.

    With the help of English inventor John Broadwood who added more
octaves, pedals and louder sound, and Sebastian Erad who enables
musicians to play keyboards aggressively without the fear that they
will damage strings or hammer mechanism, pianos truly became a modern
instrument that we know it today. Immediately after those inventions,
musicians such as Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt took pianos and elevated
them in the forefront of the classical music movement, creating
masterpieces that will live forever as integral markers of the progress
of mankind thought thousands of years of modern history.