Bartolomeo Cristofori
Instrument Maker — historical
, ItalyThe story
One Paduan tinkerer solved the harpsichord's cruelest flaw — it couldn't get louder — and quietly handed the next three centuries of music its central instrument. Invented the piano around 1700 by devising a hammer action that let a keyboard play both soft and loud.
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