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The piano is a musical instrument with keys that when depressed cause felt hammers to strike steele wire strings, producing sounds. The piano, considered a keyboard, percussion, and string instrument was developed from the harpsichord which plucked the strings rather than stiking them. One man, Bartolomeo Cristofori, a harpsichord builder in the employ of the Medici family, seems to be responsible for the key development of the piano, a mechanism to release the hammer from the string, allow the string to continue vibrating. The word ’piano‘ is from the Italian pianoforte which means soft and loud, referring the the ability to strike both softly and with force.

Many composers are accomplished pianists due the suitability of the instrument for composition. Among notable virituosos of the piano are Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Paderewski, Schumann and Van Cliburn; composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the organ and humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer is also notable as a Bach intrepreter.

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The clavichord, a stringed keyboard instrument, was developed in the late Medieval period, and used through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

• Late Gothic & Renaissance Masterworks Clavichord 1

The harpsichord is a stringed keyboard instrument, was developed in the late Medieval period, and used through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

• Greatest Hits: Harpsichord

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Jan Vermeer painting of a wealthy Delft home showing a young woman at a virginal, a small harpsichord.

• Music of Tudor and Jacobean England

Girls at the Piano is an example of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the Impressionist bringing attention to the heroics of everyday domesticity.

Piano Lesson is a collage and mixed media piece. It is thought the central figure is Mary Lou Williamson who grew up to be a jazz pianist.

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Pianist Hand, Giclee Print

Shoot the Piano Player/ Tirez sur le pianiste, Poster

1960 French film directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour.

Shine was a 1996 Australian Academy Award winning film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott (b. 1947).

FYI- One of the definitions of Catatonia is excessive motor activity or purposeless agitation; someone was doing a play on words for this vintage illustration.

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