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  2. Square piano - Wikipedia

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    Square pianos were the most popular keyboard instrument of the late 18th century, and the later square grand pianos enjoyed great popularity through the mid- and late-19th century. They were gradually replaced by upright pianos, which had a smaller footprint and larger sound.

  3. Americus Backers - Wikipedia

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    Grand piano by Americus Backers, 1772. Americus Backers (died 1778), sometimes described as the father of the English grand pianoforte style, brought the hammer striking action for keyboard instruments from his master Gottfried Silbermann's workshop in Freiburg to England in the mid-18th century.

  4. List of piano manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    They built a full line of upright pianos, player pianos, and grand pianos. It was acquired circa 1910; went out of business in the Great Depression. Beale Piano: Sydney: Australia 1893–1975 Becker Brothers: New York: US 1892–1940 They Also built pianos under the Bennington name, and player pianos under the Mellotone and Playernola name as well.

  5. Fortepiano - Wikipedia

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    From the late 18th century, the fortepiano underwent extensive technological development and evolved into the modern piano (for details, see Piano). The older type of instrument eventually ceased to be made. In the late 19th century, the early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch built three fortepianos. However, that attempted revival of the ...

  6. Benton Fletcher - Wikipedia

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    There is an anonymous triple fretted German clavichord of late 17th or early 18th Century origin. A grand piano inscribed Americus Backers, London, of the late 1770s is possibly an 18th-century "fake"; [1] the instrument is genuine but it was probably not made by Backers. There is also a square piano of eighteenth origin by Christopher Ganer ...

  7. John Broadwood & Sons - Wikipedia

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    1784 square fortepiano. Broadwood produced his first square piano in 1771, after the model of Johannes Zumpe, and worked assiduously to develop and refine the instrument, moving the wrest plank of the earlier pianoforte, which had sat to the side of the case as in the clavichord, to the back of the case in 1781, [5] straightening the keys, and replacing the hand stops with pedals. [2]

  8. 37 photos of the weirdest and most unique McDonald's ... - AOL

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    The building was originally an 18th-century farmhouse that was converted into a Georgian-style mansion in the 1860s. McDonald's originally intended to knock the building down after it was ...

  9. Piano - Wikipedia

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    Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...

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