Show HOW THE PIANO GREW the piano as we see it today to day is the growth of centuries of invention says the musical Oo courier urier lu III its infancy it was a harp with two or three strings from time to time more strings were added and after a while the cithara was born the cithara was in the shape of the letter P and had ten strings I 1 ii L took many centuries for musicians to get the adea idea of stretching the strings across anipen an open box but somewhere about the year 1200 this was thought of and the its strings being struck with hammers for another hundred years these hamn hammers aers were in the hands of the player and then some genius invented the keyboard which being struck by the fin fingers ers moved the hammers this instrument instrument was called a of keyed he y ed ci cit beara theara this underwent some modifications and improvements from time to time in queen eliz E itel a V i abetha abeth time it was called a because the hammers were co with spines of quills which f or caught the strings of wires produced the sound 4 from 1700 to 1800 it was much OA large daud and improved and called WW harpsichord harp and this was the MM strument ment that lady Wa washing 01 mrs hamilton and the first la of revolutionary times played in 1710 bartolmeo cristofolo Cristo foll ar italian invented a key or key bow boat such as we have now sub substantially stano which caused hammers to strike keW wires from above and thus deve develop loAL ed the piano in the last y there is no musical ingstrum instrument which has so completely absorb the inventive faculty of mun man as tan piano at the present day dt upright piano has the field al entirely to itself and has rea such a high grade of perfection shape tone and appearance there would appear to be no p ability of further improvement |