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The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers. The hammers immediately return allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their echoing occurrence. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies them. The first piano was invented in the year 1709, but at this time the piano was not as grand and royal but it was a simple string instrument called the harmonica. After the harmonica came the Piano that is known as one of the greatest instruments ever invented. Although there were various crude earlier attempts to make stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings, it is widely considered that the piano was invented by a single individual: Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, employed by Prince Ferdinand de Medici as the Keeper of the Instruments. In the period lasting from about 1790 to 1860, the Mozart-era piano underwent tremendous changes, which led to the modern form of the instrument. After this day everyone has head the wish of playing this magnificent instrument. Though half the grand pieces written by professional composers were made for the harmonica the piano makes them sound beautiful. |