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When fretwork panels are damaged, they are often replaced with solid panels, making the piano seem later than it is, and it would be more in keeping to use cloth or tapestry. If you are craft-minded, how about a cloth with a fretwork pattern embroidered on it?
For almost fifty years almost every square piano — whether from Stodart, Tomkison, Broadwood, Dettmer and many other makers — had fretwork panels at either side of the nameboard. His wire-operated dolly dampers replaced every other design, though later fixed to a separate lever rather than to the key, and every square piano with an extended ...
- Chronological Overview of The Piano’s Evolution
- Piano Predecessors: Clavichord, Spinet and Harpsichord
- Introduction of The Pianoforte
2650 B.C. – The Chinese had fashioned an instrument called the “ke” which had strings strung over a movable bridge on a wooden box that could be plucked to produce various tones Traditional Chinese Ke Stringed Instrument 582 B.C. – Pythagóras began experimenting with musical sounds and mathematics, inventing the Monochord Listen the meditative soun...
Clavichords remained a popular instrument among musicians and composers even as new instrument adaptations were being introduced. The lack of dynamic made it a wirier sound with less depth. Lap versions of the instrument were played on tabletops while others were built on stands varying from 3 ½ to 5 feet in width. The spinet originated in Italy, n...
Born out of the need to improve the sound quality of the harpsichord, the pianoforte was the combination of many ideas that had been tried on the clavichord and harpsichord. Several inventors began adding hammer actions to restore the smooth tone of the clavichord on the frame and case design of the harpsichord. Schröter, Christofori and Marius wer...
On the nameboard of this same piano is another element introduced in England in 1794: a pair of delicate fretwork openings that allow sound to better escape from the interior when the lid is closed (figs. 7, 8).
The style was common between the 1840s and 1890s, so it is very difficult to pin down a date by their appearance. They were usually plainer and smaller than Cottage Pianos, with columns and toe-blocks replacing the legs, but with the pierced fretwork replaced by a solid boxed-in front.
In England the imperial standard wire gauge was sanctioned by the board of trade. Prior to this we used the Birmingham wire gauge. Most UK makers used Birmingham's piano wire. This was due to Webster and Horfall of Birmingham's who in 1854 invented a means of making tempered cast steel piano wire.
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Apr 28, 2024 · The ancestry of the piano begins in the year 500 BC when the Greeks invented the first Monochord. Monochord literally means one chord, and this instrument consists of one metal string stretched tightly over a hollow body of wood called a resonator table.
