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In contrast, low C and D, both roots of very common chords, are sorely missed if a harpsichord with lowest key E is tuned to match the keyboard layout. When scholars specify the pitch range of instruments with this kind of short octave, they write "C/E", meaning that the lowest note is a C, played on a key that normally would sound E.
The fortepiano has leather-covered hammers and thin, harpsichord-like strings.It has a much lighter case construction than the modern piano and, except for later examples of the early nineteenth century (already evolving towards the modern piano), it has no metal frame or bracing.
The creation of the tangent piano, and the fortepiano, were the results of attempts to remedy the lack of dynamics in harpsichord sound. Both the tangent piano and fortepiano offered a variety of sound that was appealing to the changes in classical music, which featured more expressiveness and intensity than the harpsichord could offer.
Invented in 1700, the fortepiano was the second keyboard instrument (in addition to the clavichord which predates it) to allow gradations of volume and tone according to how forcefully or softly the player presses or strikes the keys, unlike the pipe organ and harpsichord. [5]
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, ca. 1805 The earliest pianos by Cristofori (ca. 1700) were lightweight objects, hardly sturdier in framing than a contemporary harpsichord , with thin strings of low tensile strength iron and brass and small, lightweight hammers.
Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell , or activating an electronic circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard).
Harpsichord. Clavicymbalum; Lautenwerck; Hurdy-gurdy; Marxophone; Piano. Fortepiano; Tangent piano; Xenorphica; Additionally, members of the harpsichord and piano families may also use alternative setups to make the instruments more compact: Portable Folding harpsichord; Orphica; Spinets. Oval spinet; Square Square piano; Virginals; Uprights ...
This lists the sonatas for solo keyboard (originally intended for harpsichord, clavichord, or fortepiano) by Domenico Scarlatti. The list can be sorted by any of the four sets of catalogue numbers: K: Ralph Kirkpatrick (1953; sometimes Kk. or Kp.) L: Alessandro Longo (1906) P: Giorgio Pestelli (1967) CZ: Carl Czerny