Originally published in 1928. A detailed history of the piano, its
mechanism, its makes and its makers. Contents Include Remote Ancestry
The Coming of the Keyboard First Stringed Keyboard Instruments The
Harpsichord Family Early Keyboard Music Revival of Clavichord and Birth
of Piano Changes and Improvements Surviving makes of the Eighteenth
Century The First Real Piano Music The Upright Piano-Last Improvements
Some Famous British Makes Some Famous Foreign Makes The Genealogy of the
Piano Bibliography Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
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