Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori (May 4th 1655 - January 27th 1731) is a factor of keyboard instruments Italy N, Facteur of harpsichords, Clavicorde S with the extremely inventive spirit.
It was a factor of Clavecin S considered, but owes especially its celebrity with the Piano-forte (preceding the Piano by the 19th century) of which he was the inventor following research and experiments that he carried out to equip the clavichord with increased expressive possibilities. It chooses a case of harpsichord to install its new mechanism there.
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See the pianoforte of 1720
Its first Pianoforte date of 1698. We owe him an oval virginal, " spinetta oval LED 1690" , of the harpsichords, piano-strong, the clavichords, the harpsichords traverso " spinettone da orchestra".
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