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title: "What year was Piano invented and how?"  
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# What year was Piano invented and how?

What year was Piano invented and how?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

The **[piano](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30696/when-was-the-piano-invented)** is an **acoustic**, **keyboard**, and **stringed musical instrument** with softer hardwood hammers that strike the strings. It's performed on a keyboard, which consists of a row of keys that the performer presses or strikes with both hands' fingers and thumbs to force the hammers to strike the strings. Around the year **1700**, **Bartolomeo Cristofori** invented it in **[Italy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/47386/in-which-year-was-the-juventus-one-or-italy-s-most-famous-clubs-formed)**. \
The piano was built on the backs of previous technological advances in keyboard instruments. Pipe organs have been around since antiquity, and their evolution allowed instrument designers to discover how to make keyboard mechanisms for playing pitches. \
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The hammered dulcimers, which have been used in **Europe** since the Middle Ages, were the first string instruments having hit strings. The piano is assigned to **Bartolomeo Cristofori** of **Padua**, **[Italy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/47386/in-which-year-was-the-juventus-one-or-italy-s-most-famous-clubs-formed)**, who worked as the Keeper of the Instruments for **Ferdinando de Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany**. Cristofori was a master harpsichord maker who was well-versed in the field of stringed keyboard instruments. His understanding of keyboard mechanisms and motions aided him in the development of the first pianos. \
When **Cristofori** originally created a **[piano](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30696/when-was-the-piano-invented)**, no one knows for sure. By the year **1700**, his employers, the **Medici** family, had made an inventory that indicated the presence of a piano. The three remaining **Cristofori pianos** date from the **1720s**. **Un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte** was **Cristofori's** term for the **instrument**, which was later abbreviated as **pianoforte**, **fortepiano**, and, finally, **[piano](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30696/when-was-the-piano-invented)**.


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