History

The piano was founded earlier The first string instruments with struck strings were the hammered dulcimers. There has been many attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments during the Middle Ages, like the Clavichord. Bartolommeo Cristofori (1655-1731) is considered to be the inventor of the modern piano. Cristofori is from Padua, Italy, and he was employed by Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany. He was hired as the “Keeper of the Instruments”. Bartolommeo was an expert in making Harpsichords, as well as being an expert with the body of knowledge on stringed keyboard instruments. The exact creation date of the piano is not known precisely. The family Bartolommeo lived with state that the piano was invented in the year 1700, but some documents are more specific with details and say that the date of the creation of this instrument was of 1698. There are three Cristofori pianos that still live till this day, and they date back from the 1720s.