history
- Bartolomeo Cristofor is the creator of the most prestigious instrument also knows as the piano.
- The first piano was invented in Florence, Italy in the 1700's.
- The piano was already a 100 years old by the time a very famous piano player named Beethoven was writing his last sonatas.
- In 1760 pianos were made to be smaller so that wealthy familys can be able to purchase them and place them in their houses.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is also very well known pianist, he grew up in a household with one of the small pianos, and at the age of four he started touring Europe alongside his family.
- In the 19th century women were not allowed to play the piano, but there were a few exceptions, such as Clara Wieck Schumann and Parisian Marie Moke Pleyel.
- Despite not being allowed to perform in public, women were expected to know how to play the piano at home and teach their children how to play as well.
- African Americans in the 1900s came up with their own styles of playing the piano, first ragtime and then jazz.
- Piano manufacturing took over in Asia, where companies such as Yamaha in Japan became leading producers.
- With over 300 years of history, the piano has survived longer than most instruments that exist today and it is still one of the most famous instruments.