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
Overture from Le calife de Bagdad (1809) by François-Adrien Boieldieu, played on a fortepiano
A 1720 fortepiano by Cristofori in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is the oldest surviving piano.
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
An 1810 Broadwood grand, kept in the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels
References
- ↑ Ripin, Edwin M. (2001). Fortepiano (i). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10016.
- ↑ Badura-Skoda, Eva (2017). The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven. Indiana University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt2005v7j. ISBN 978-0-253-02263-9. JSTOR j.ctt2005v7j.
