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Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos

Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos

A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand, Second Edition

by Edwin M. Good
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/07/2002

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This lavishly illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700 to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the technologies of design, materials, and manufacture, and focusing its description on specific existing pianos, it describes the changes in pianos from the earliest days to contemporary instruments. This revised edition incorporates the results of recent research that increases knowledge of the work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the piano; changes perceptions of how eighteenth-century pianos were made and used; adds to the available information about the important contributions of the Steinway Company; and describes the most recent changes to the piano. The first edition of this book received the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society as the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.
ISBN:
9780804745499
9780804745499
Category:
Keyboard instruments
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-07-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
229x178x24mm
Weight:
0.74kg

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