BOOK 1: THE PIANO HANDBOOK In this book McCombie explains how Bartolomeo Cristofori changed a Harpsichord in to a piano

Book 1: Piano Handbook In this book, McCombie explains how Bartolomeo Cristofori turned harpsichord into a piano more than 300 years ago. McCombie continues to explain how Cristofori is angry and frustrated, and he knocks on the key of the harpsichord. Cristofori discovered that they do not have enough impact codes. By 1700, Cristofori used two strings for each note and changed the harpsichord so that it can hit them with leather-covered hammer.

The history of the piano goes back to the 3 rd century. Italian harpsichord named BartolomeoCristofori has made a breakthrough technical advance - a dynamically changing new harpsichord mechanism capability He developed this touch-sensitive invention as "gravicembalo col piano e forte" or "soft and loud harpsichord I called it. However, for the centuries prior to Bartolomeo Cristofori, two keyboards that started in the 15th century were used in parallel. These are harpsichord and harpsichord. Because everyone has their own advantages, it is very popular at certain venues and music styles, and ultimately leads to the piano.

When Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano, the most popular keyboard instruments were harpsichord and harpsichord. Both instruments look like today's piano. The main difference between them and the modern piano is the way they are produced. The string hits the tangent of the string string of the ancient piano string, and the harpsichord string is drawn with feather pen. One of the main disadvantages of harpsichords is that they can not control the dynamics (volume or softness) of each note. In other words, composers can not evoke feelings in music as necessary. The harpsichord is designed to remedy this drawback. It still plays the string, but the string continues to vibrate as long as the key is pressed. Therefore, players can better control the volume of the instrument. A more technologically advanced Krabi code has become very popular, but it still has weaknesses.

Let's talk about that inventor in the discussion about the history of the piano. Who invented the piano? The modern piano was invented by Padova's Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731). He is a professional harpsichord producer, and Tuscan Grand Prince Ferdinand de Medici is hired as a guardian of instruments. He made the first piano in 1700 or 1698. Historians are not exactly the same as for the exact dates. The keyboard looks different from the layout of today's piano keyboard; the natural key is black and the accident is white. Sebastian LeBlanc recommends switching black and white keys. Three Cristofori pianos surviving today can be traced back to the 1720s.