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In what ways did the sound of he modern piano differ from a piano used in Mozart’s day
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In what ways did the sound of the modern piano differ from a piano used in Mozart's day? BACKGROUND OF THE PIANO In the 18th century the instrument now known as the piano was a relatively recent invention. There were a number of people who experimented with the mechanism and who produced functioning instruments, but it was Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, who built an important prototype and who is traditionally recognised as the inventor of the piano essentially as we know it today. He was the keeper of instruments at the court of Ferdinand de' Medici in Florence. In Bach's time, the German word klavier (Italian, cembalo) was usually used as a generic term to signify all keyboard instruments (except the organ, in most cases). In Germany today, however, the word refers only to the upright piano, to distinguish it from the Flügel (literally, "wing"), the instrument in the grand-piano shape. Cristofori...
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