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FSMTA (Florida State Music Teachers Association)  Workshop
Below are video for the FSMTA Workshop
Presented by Daniel Berg RPT
Link to "Piano History" on bergpiano.com below for a more complete discussion
Piano History
 
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Title
Classification
Harp and Dulclimer
Medieval Organ and possibly first organ drawing
first organs
Recorder...popular medieval instrument
recorder
Clavichord

Harpsichord and action image

harpsichord action
Music Periods with Harpsichord / Piano
Music Period chart

Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655-1731

His instruments Harpsichords and Piano Forte

Cristofori
small harpsichord
Oval Spinet
1722 piano forte
Piano Forte
>
World's Oldest Piano
Tchaikovsky
1859
1890 Not overstrung
Later Innovations
1900 1930
golden age
Una Corda
>
Wheelharp
Seaboard
Fluid Piano
Janko Keyboard
Chopstick Piano
Ravel
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