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Title: How the Piano Came to Be

Author: Ellye Howell Glover

Release Date: July 1, 2009 [EBook #29280]

Language: English

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HOW THE PIANO CAME TO BE

[Illustration: UPRIGHT HARPSICHORD

(_From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City_)]

HOW THE PIANO
CAME TO BE

BY

ELLYE HOWELL GLOVER

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO
BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY

PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1913

THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Upright Harpsichord _Frontispiece_

Clavicytherium or Upright Spinet _Facing page_ 12

Clavichord 12

Spinet 16

Queen Elizabeth's Virginal 16

Double Spinet or Virginal made by Ludovicus
Grovvelus 20

Clavichord made by John Christopher Jesse 24

Dulcimer 28

Christofori Piano 32

Piano made by Matthaeus Andreas Stein 40

Piano made by Benjamin Crehore 48

Piano made by Charles Albrecht 50

Piano, Primitive German Action 52

A Stodart Piano 56

HOW THE PIANO CAME TO BE

How the Piano Came To Be

From the dried sinews stretched across the shell of a dead tortoise to
the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. Yet to this
primitive source, it is said, may be traced the evolution of the
stringe