This was a BREAKTHROUGH!!
For the first time, musicians could play both loud and soft on the same keyboard. Voila! Eureka! and the peasants rejoiced. (not really - but composers definitely rejoiced, and likely enough, kings rejoiced also...)
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Before there were pianos, there were harpsichords. Although a very interesting instrument (strings were plucked, not struck), the harpsichord had one huge fault that frustrated musicians all over the world: Very little dynamic contrast! Finally, in the early 1700's, a guy named Bartolomeo Cristofor invented a clavichord. When the keys were pressed, strings inside the instrument were struck with a miniature hammer.
This was a BREAKTHROUGH!! For the first time, musicians could play both loud and soft on the same keyboard. Voila! Eureka! and the peasants rejoiced. (not really - but composers definitely rejoiced, and likely enough, kings rejoiced also...)
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