Italian maker of musical instruments, employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as Keeper of the Instruments, famous for inventing the piano around 1700. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Built the mechanism that made the pianos dynamic hammer action possible.
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1. Bartolomeo Cristofori (Wikipedia)
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Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco ... May 4, 1655 - January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
Piano (Wikipedia)
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The invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments.
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Who invented the piano, and what was his job?
Cristofori, keeper of the Medici instruments, invented the piano around 1700.
The piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian maker of musical instruments who invented it around 1700. He was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as Keeper of the Instruments.
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