Author Name
Brinsmead, Edgar
Title History of the Pianoforte (1879)
Binding Paperback
Book Condition New
Publisher Frits Knuf 1986
ISBN Number
9060275004 / 9789060275009
Seller ID 7562
201pp, illustrations. A mid-19th century overview of the development of the piano and earlier forms of keyboard instruments from the Ancients until the 1870s. Examines the forerunners of the piano, including the clavicytherium, virginals, spinet and harpsichord, and the fundamental acoustic properties they have in common, to the invention and development of the modern instrument and the work of significant European and British makers. Facsimile reprint.
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