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Show Piano Long in Favor With Lovers of Music The first upright piano made in tin-United tin-United States was manufactured in the year 1S00 by John Isaac Hawkit of Philadelphia, an Englishman h birth. The earliest piano made in the United Slates was that made by Jo seph Ilisky of Baltimore. His Instruments Instru-ments quickly found favor and his es tablislinn nt in Baltimore was the mec-ca mec-ca of all lovers of good musical instruments. instru-ments. Johannes Erancis Kahl, who was born in Germany, is credited with making the first piano made In Washington. Wash-ington. Jonas Chickering designed the first distinctly American pianoforte. His ; father was a blacksmith. The English owed their first piano to a Scotsman. John Bioadwood. The English hnrpsi-i hnrpsi-i chord, known to the Germans as the fiugel because its shape somewhat resembled re-sembled the wing of a bird, to the , French as the clavetsin and to the j Italians as the clavicembalo, was the Immediate predecessor of the pianoforte. |