Did you know the piano was invented by an Italian? The inventor was a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori.
Bartolomeo was born on May 4, 1655 in Padua, Italy. Not much is known about his life, though we do know that he became an accomplished harpsichord builder. In fact, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, requested his presence in Florence in 1690. After building numerous instruments for Prince Ferdinando, Bartolomeo invented the gravicembalo col piano e forte (translated to harpsichord that plays soft and loud) in 1709. The new instrument was nicknamed pianoforte, and later shortened simply to piano.
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