Fortepiano
A fortepiano is an early piano. It normally means pianos from the 18th century to the early 19th century.[1] The first fortepiano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence. The idea soon spread in Europe.[2]
Fortepiano Media
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, c. 1805
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Danilo Mascetti, fortepiano specialist
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Overture from Le calife de Bagdad (1809) by François-Adrien Boieldieu, played on a fortepiano
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A 1720 fortepiano by Cristofori in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is the oldest surviving piano.
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Fortepiano by Conrad Graf in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
Zumpe's, or Masons, action drawn from the instrument of 1766. 1) key, 2) jack, a wire with leather stud on top, known by the workmen as the "old man's head", 3) whalebone rear guide, projects from the end of the key, works in a groove to keep the key steady, 4) hammer, 5) whalebone jack, called the 'mopstick', 6) damper, 7) whalebone damper spring
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An 1810 Broadwood grand, kept in the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels
