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The Piano Makers
Baldwin D.H. Baldwin, a music teacher and a piano salesman founded a firm which begun to manufacture pianos in 1889. […]
V. Principal Parts of the Piano
During the next hundred years following Cristofori’s death, we have seen that the piano underwent a series of significant developments. […]
IV. The Development of Piano after Cristofori’s Death
After Cristofori’s death, other instrument builders made piano in radically different sizes and shapes, as well as mechanisms unlike Cristofori’s. […]
The Cristofori Piano
What is Cristofori Piano? The piano first known as the pianoforte evolved from the harpsichord around 1700 to 1720, by […]
II. Early History
Beginnings in the Courtly Circles(1700-1760) The piano was invented in Florence around 1709 by an Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori. […]
Piano: A Popular Instrument
The piano is considered to be the world’s most popular instrument. It is played not only in musical institutions and […]
Piano as an Investment
This is a chart of how well pianos have done as an investment strategy. We have used older data so […]
Books We Recommend
This lavishly illustrated book tells the remarkable story of the Steinway company and its founding family. Heinrich Steinway emigrated to […]
Common Myths about Pianos
Pianos should be kept on inside walls. Fact: Pianos are much more sensitive to humidity than temperature. Since pianos are […]
Who Buys a Rebuilt Steinway?
Why do many rich people buy a rebuilt Steinway piano rather than a brand new one? When you buy a […]
Piano Restoration
What is piano restoration? One definition of restoration is “to put back into nearly the original form,” and this technique […]
Top Piano Rebuilder
Piano is an art of music and it is also a work of art itself. This wonderful machine has thousand […]
Glossary
Una-corda. Meaning “one string,” this stop adjusts the position of the keyboard and action sideways, so that the hammer heads […]
Short Octave
Set-off button [escapement button, set-off screw]. A regulating button that controls the moment (the ‘set-off’) at which a jack or […]
Rebuilt Piano
Querflugel [Querpianoforte] (Ger.). A small horizontal piano, usually wing-shaped with the keyboard placed at an acute angle to the spine. […]
Piano Attachment
Piano a coda (It.). GRAND PIANOFORTE. Piano a prolongement (Fr.). A piano in which sustained sounds could be produced by […]
Minipiano
Minipiano. A very small upright with a ‘drop’action (with the mechanism placed below the level of the keyboard), first produced […]
In tune
In regulation. Regulation is a process in which a technician makes a dozen or so critical adjustment to each of […]
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Gabel-Harmon-Pianoforte. A piano patented by Matthias Muller in 1827 in which one of the unison strings of each note is […]
Ear training
Ear training. A term given to the aspects of beginning piano lessons that focus on teaching aural aspects of learning […]
Cabinet piano
Cabinet. The outside of the piano; the part you see when the piano is closed. Cabinet piano. A type of […]
Action
Action. A collection of levers, primarily consisting if the hammers, dampers, and all other moving parts and supporting rails found […]
Types of Music Played on the Piano
Variation Forms Variation is a fundamental principle of musical composition, and a musical form based on that principle. To vary […]
Dance Forms and the Suite
Suite refers to any instrumental composition usually compose in one key and which consists of several movements. It was developed […]
Romanticism Style
Romanticism is an artistic movement in music that favors the imagination and emotion over reason and logic, and promotes the […]
Popular and National Dance Forms
Dance is as old as music itself. Most dance forms which have flourished in the realm of piano music have […]
Piano Lesson Made Easy
Have you experienced being enchanted with a melody of sound? Sound that can satiate your inner being and express your […]
Best Piano to Buy for an Advanced Player
What is the best piano for an advanced player like you? Well, if you will ask others opinion you will […]
Piano Sales in Detroit
Detroit is a good choice to buy a piano if value is important to you. Because of the economic downturn […]
Institution Piano Sales
Institution Piano Sales is one of the methods to market pianos. It is the time when piano manufacturers and retailers […]
Keys of Grand Piano
Grand pianos are played by means of keyboard but technically, they belong to string instruments. They are one of the […]
Value of Used Pianos
It is normally difficult to give a value to a piano especially the used one. Pianos depreciate very little or […]
Old Piano: An Investment
Why would anyone want an old piano? Why not a new piano? Quality reason. The second largest manufacture in the […]
Why Old Piano has 85 Keys
Why does an older piano have 85 keys? Well, the piano started out with only about 60 keys. According to […]
Second Hand Piano
When you are thinking of buying a second hand Steinway piano, you can get a good quality for a reasonable […]
Need Steinway Cheap
Are you looking for a Steinway piano in a cheap price? You can have it! It depends on how you […]
