The piano was invented sometime during the late 17th and early 18th centuries by Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori; an inventory record shows that the first piano was in existence by 1700.

1. HISTORY
OF THE PIANO
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2. HISTORY OF
THE PIANO
The piano was invented sometime during the
late 17th and early 18th centuries by Italian
Bartolomeo Cristofori; an inventory record shows
that the first piano was in existence by 1700.
Its name is a shortened version of the original Italian name for the
instrument, the pianoforte, which itself comes from Italian terms that
mean ‘loud’ and ‘soft’.
Cristofori worked as the Keeper of Instruments for the Grand Prince of
Tuscany, Ferdinano de’ Medici. Through this role he developed a strong
knowledge of other keyboard-based musical instruments, such as the
harpsichord. This knowledge helped him to develop the first piano,
which required a solution where a player hitting a piano key activated
a hammer, which would in turn strike the strings that make a sound.
Three of Cristofori’s pianos still exist today, each dating from around
the 1720s. However, these are different in construction to modern
pianos thanks to changes in their construction that occurred in the late
1700s and early 1800s. This change in construction was partly driven by
manufacturing innovations derived from the industrial revolution, and
the preference of composers for a more powerful sound.
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