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  2. Square piano - Wikipedia

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    Over time, square pianos were built in larger sizes with more keys and a wider range; by the 1830s, square grand pianos predominated, with changes to their internal mechanisms and construction that produced larger sounds and used higher string tensions. Square pianos were the most popular keyboard instrument of the late 18th century, and the ...

  3. Johannes Zumpe - Wikipedia

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    The pianos in Zumpe's style were built from about 1760 to 1800. In Zumpe's day they played a role not unlike the upright piano of today: they were more compact and affordable than the full-size wing-shaped instrument. As such, they played an important role in the spread of the piano among musicians, particularly amateurs.

  4. Chickering & Sons - Wikipedia

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    Chickering brand piano pictured in an advertisement in an Indianapolis Maennerchor concert program, March 1912. Jonas Chickering made several major contributions to the development of piano technology, most notably by introducing a one-piece, cast-iron plate to support the greater string tension of larger grand pianos. He also invented a new ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Izzy Meikle-Small - Wikipedia

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    Meikle-Small is best known for portraying young Kathy H. in the 2010 film Never Let Me Go. She played the younger version of the actress Carey Mulligan , to whom she has a close resemblance. [ 6 ] In December 2011, Meikle-Small was also in the BBC miniseries Great Expectations (2011) where she played young Estella and Vanessa Kirby played the ...

  7. Colette Hiller - Wikipedia

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    Colette Hiller is an American film, theatre and television actress. She attended the Performing Arts Academy in New York as a teenager, and appeared in the original musical play of Annie, and in other films and plays such as The Lonely Lady, Ragtime, Strong Medicine, and Birth of the Beatles.

  8. Pia Zadora - Wikipedia

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    The house, once the shared home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, was demolished and a new 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m 2) house was built on the property. Zadora later claimed on a September 2012 episode of BIO's Celebrity Ghost Stories that Pickfair was razed owing to a troubling apparition that appeared to her and children when her ...

  9. 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]