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No other instrument has been as important to the history of Western music as the piano. Since its invention in Florence three hundred years ago, the piano has become many things to many people-a bridge between the worlds of classical and popular m...
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Contents
History of the Piano (4:02) -- History of Stringed Instruments (4:22) -- Medici Family and Musical Invention (3:38) -- Bartolomeo Cristofori's Piano Forte (3:02) -- Popularity of the Piano in London (4:31) -- Mozart, Stein, and the Piano (4:04) --...
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