This education blog shares various horizons of music in order to promote sustainable development of music education. Being devoted to music education for 19 years, Carol Ng has established her private studio at Adelaide, South Australia with an examination-standard Yamaha grand piano. In addition, Carol is keen on enlightening the next generation and advocating continuous advancement of music industry.

教育BLOG旨在推廣音樂教育發展,讓更多人認識不同的音樂領域;吳老師投身音樂教育十九年,於南澳洲的阿得萊德開設私人教室,並採用符合考試標準之Yamaha 三角琴教學,致力培育新一代音樂學好者及推動音樂行業的持續發展。

2014年5月3日 星期六

Cristofori pianoforte

Cristofori pianoforte

Cristofori pianoforte















This is an exact copy of the 1726 instrument by the inventor of the pianoforte, Bartolomeo Cristofori. It was made as part of a research project by my wife, Kerstin Schwarz. We have since made another exact copy, commisioned by the Leipsig museum of musical instruments, which owns the original. The 1726 piano has only a 4 octave range, but Cristofori also made pianos with a bigger compass, such as the 4½ octave 1720 piano now in New York. (See also the page on Cristofori and the Medici)
Listen to the Cristofori piano in MP3 (1.3MB)
Listen to the Cristofori pianoforte:
 
 
 
Cristofori pianoforte
 








 
One of the 3 surviving original Cristofori pianos, from 1722, now in the instrument museum in Rome. Famous musicians such as Scarlatti and Handel knew and played on Cristofori's piano, and the Silbermann piano that Bach knew had an exact copy of Cristofori's action (no copyright in those days!).

 
 
Cristofori pianoforte

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cristofori's action is the first real piano action. His principal invention was the escapement mechanism, but Cristofori went on to improve the action in many ways. The result is a marvelously refined and delicate instrument with a beautiful sound, an instrument brought to a true state of perfection. All subsequent pianos, down to the modern piano, derive from this instrument, but many were not as successful as the very first!

from "TONY CHINNERY HARPSICHORDS"




 









 

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