Mi padlet estelar by Daryl Espinoza

estefaniaespinoza166 — 2021-02-20 01:59:25 UTC

The oldest known predecessor of the piano is the zither, a Bronze Age instrument native to Africa and Southeast Asia. It consisted of a set of strings arranged on a table and vibrated with the nails or some sharp object. In the Middle Ages the monochord was created. The monochord is a concave and elongated instrument with a single string that used to be struck with the quill of a quill. Somewhat later the psaltery appeared, a plucked or percussed string instrument that already had a harmonic table and tonal bridges. This evolved to the dulcimer, an instrument made up of a flat trapezoidal resonance box and several metal strings that were not played directly with the hands but percussed. The closest relative in time is the harpsichord (14th century), which, like the piano, responded to the force of the attack, although in a weak way. From this mechanism the modern piano was created.

Artolomeo Cristofori built at the end of the 17th century an instrument similar to the harpsichord with a significant evolution. By vibrating the strings on a hammer-shaped piece of wood, a sweeter and more sustained sound was achieved that, in addition, could be adjusted in volume and tone, depending on the force with which the keys were pressed.There is no verified data on his youth but, according to a legend, he was an apprentice to the violin maker Nicolò Amati. What is known with certainty is that in 1688, at the age of 33, he began to work in the service of Prince Ferdinand de Medici, music lover and passionate about mechanics and mathematics. There he was able to unleash his creativity to work on the development of the piano.

estefaniaespinoza166 — 2021-02-20 02:01:15 UTC

estefaniaespinoza166 — 2021-02-20 02:03:40 UTC

The modern piano has, in essence, the same characteristics as the pianos of the late 19th century. Its structure is made up of the cabinet, shuffles and a metal frame, the set of strings, the harmonic table, a mechanism operated by keys and the pedals. Today's Steinway & Sons grand pianos are made up of about 12,000 different parts, a large part of which is put into motion for the hammer to strike the strings.

estefaniaespinoza166 — 2021-02-20 02:05:58 UTC

At first, the creation of the piano was not very well received and musicians were not interested in it. The first specific pieces for piano were the 12 "Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte detto volgarmente di martelletti", composed by Lodovico Giustini in 1732. These sonatas were dedicated to António de Bragança, younger brother of King Juan V of Portugal, one of the first places where piano works were performed. Giustini took advantage of the expressive possibilities of the instrument to compose a work with fast alterations and slow sections, something that other keyboard instruments of the time did not allow. It was not until 1762 that the first piano concerto was composed by Henry Walsh in Dublin.

estefaniaespinoza166 — 2021-02-20 02:08:13 UTC

Virtually all modern pianos have 88 keys (36 black and 52 white) but this was not always the case. Most pianos built between the late 1800s and the early 1900s had 85 notes. Only from the second decade of the last century began to be built with 88 notes. However, the piano house Steinway & Sons was already building 88-note pianos in the late 19th century.