{"id":7737,"date":"2021-09-03T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianosplus.ie\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2023-09-21T08:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T08:33:57","slug":"the-piano-a-brief-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianosplus.ie\/the-piano-a-brief-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Piano \u2013 A Brief History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kt48gw7m-801a470f9ebf42a7d9332f835b4a1c0f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kt48gw7m-801a470f9ebf42a7d9332f835b4a1c0f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kt48gw7m-801a470f9ebf42a7d9332f835b4a1c0f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kt48gw7m-801a470f9ebf42a7d9332f835b4a1c0f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kt48gw7m-801a470f9ebf42a7d9332f835b4a1c0f av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Piano \u2013 A Brief History<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kt48hd02-3c1373002aabd8c93e3b02cb6d24317a'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>\u201cTo some the piano is a piece of furniture, to others a musical instrument. Pianos are often taken for granted, and yet they are the most complex mechanical devices found in any home with a typical instrument containing over 10,000 parts\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piano \u2013 The Evolution, Design and Performance.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem on reflection, that the piano has been with us for an eternity. But in fact it first appeared just 300 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Cristifori designed and built the first instrument that we would recognise as a piano today. In the intervening 300 years, many people, from Gottlieb Schroter, Johann Andreas Stein and Johannes Zumpe \u2013 who made the square piano a commercial success \u2013 through to John Broadwood &amp; Sons and Robert Wornum Jr. have contributed greatly to making the piano the instrument we all know and love.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it was Wornum who contributed more to the development of the upright piano than any other maker. 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