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Development of the Piano m3s, 5/25/94 CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIANO The making of other instruments even the organ can b e done in the traditional wayof the individual craftsman who makes each part himself and ts them together one by one, using only simple to ols. But a piano involves many di erent technologies; the making of hammers, actions, wires, and frames requires several entirely di erent skills and facil- ities, which no one workman has. It is necessarily an industrial pro ject with organized co op eration of many di erent sp ecialities. If a mo dern piano was made by an individual craftsman in a small shop, it would b e of greatly inferior quality,itwould cost hundreds of times more than it do es, and the numb er of pianos in the world would b e a thousand times smaller than it is. For this same reason, the development of the piano was a vastly more complicated pro cess than that of any other instrument, requiring many di erent p eo- ple to contribute their sp ecial exp ertise to the solution of many di erent problems, and warranting a separate Chapter for it. The Harpsichord Although it to ok place in Europ e, the early development of the harpsichord is slightly mysterious to day. Some authors state that the principle of plucking strings with exible crow quills started from the Spinet by Giovanni Spinetti of Venice 1503. However, others make the more plausible claim that the Italian name `spinet' or French epinette comes from y the Latin spina thorn, that spinets existed under that name for p erhaps a hundred years b efore 1503, and Spinetti merely named himself for the instruments he made, a common custom then. An Italian instrument used by Queen Elizab eth I 1533{1603 may b e seen in the South Kensington Museum, London; she was an accomplished p erformer on it. The rst spinets pro duced feeble sound, with a di erent quality for di erentkeys. Much more exp erimentation with size and shap e of bridge and soundb oard, and string length and tension, was needed to develop a satisfactory instrument. Larger, louder, and more uniform sounding instruments called harpsichords app eared in the middle 16'th Cen- tury, and were well develop ed over the next 100 years, as the Belgian Ruckers instruments of 1590 { 1659 show. By the time of Alessandro Scarlatti 1659 { 1725 the harpsichord had settled down into a more or less p erfected standard pro duct, present in considerable numb ers throughout Europ e. Metamorphosis Into The Piano A harpsichord string can pro duce only one sound however you press the key, b ecause the quill always breaks free at the same p oint { where it is placing the same force on the string. Thus there is no dynamic variation on any one key.However, this can b e overcome in three ways. Firstly, install a second manual, which controls another set of strings and gives the player the option of plucking two or three strings on a note, making a variation y The English words `pin' and `p orcupine' { literally, `pig with thorns' have the same Latin origin. 302 3: Metamorphosis Into The Piano of loudness and tone. This was tried ab out the middle of the 17'th Century, but it was exp ensive and never really satisfactory. Easier, and much b etter, one can recognize that in most music the dynamics is quite simple: \expression" consists mostly of emphasizing the highest notes in a phrase in imitation of a human singer, who must work harder to pro duce higher notes. So the builder needs only to make the quills progressively sti er, so they pluck the higher notes harder. In the b est harpsichords, this slight automatic gradation of loudness is carried out so smo othly that it do es not call attention to itself; yet in the playing one is seldom aware z of any dynamical limitation compared to what can b e done on the piano. Nevertheless, if one wants to emphasize any note strongly in a phrase or chord, or give prominence to a bass gure over the treble, it cannot b e done on a harpsichord. But neither of these solutions deals with another ma jor problem of the harpsichord, the harsh, twanging sound that the builders tried unsuccessfully to soften although to day many scientists could tell them how to do it. Apparently, this sound is o ensive only to Western ears; the Sitar of India has it to a far greater degree than do es the harpsichord, due to what wewould consider inappropriate scaling length, density, tension of the strings; but nob o dy seems to complain ab out this. Note that \tone" is concerned with the distribution of pitch in the many vibrations pro duced by a single string; not the variation of overall loudness over di erent strings, as discussed in the last paragraph. Actually some progress was made in this resp ect; the Italian harpsichords, following their early spinet tradition, were small and light the string for C ab ove middle C only ab out 10 inches long with a shrill, p enetrating tone. The Flemish instruments evolved from them achieved a darker tone, generally regarded as more sophisticated, by making the instruments bigger the aforementioned string is now ab out 14 inches long; this length is still used on our mo dern grand pianos. The third solution solves b oth of these problems; and actually it had b een well known for centuries b efore Spinetti. The dulcimer is an ancient instrument, which is essentially a long zither played like a xylophone, with the strings struckby little soft{headed hammers held in the hand. Its pleasant tone and great p ossibilities of musical expression were well known, so it is very hard to understand whyover 200 years passed, during which time makers of spinets and harpsichords were struggling to improve the sound, b efore this principle was applied to the harpsichord. Actually,we know that several p eople did suggest this; but they were not listened to, for reasons that we cannot comprehend to day but of course, the phenomenon of a p erson in deep trouble, who indignantly rejects the only thing that can help him, is observed in every eld of endeavor. Finally, in the early 18'th Century, the decisive step was made. In Florence, the Prince Ferdinand de Medici kept in his palace forty harpsichords and spinets. To maintain them all in working order required an in{house master mechanic, so he hired a young harpsichord maker from Padua named Bartolomeo Cristofori 1683{1731. Fortunately for us, it seems that maintaining the Prince's instruments was not quite a full{time job, for Cristofori found there b oth the time and the facilities to try out the dulcimer idea, z This is not to say that the actual physical sound energy generated is greater in the treble; measurements show the opp osite to b e true. However, what matters is the loudness as p erceived byhuman ears. Our ears are more sensitive to high pitches than to low; and this more than comp ensates the greater bass energy. Chap. 3: DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIANO 303 completing his rst instrument in 1707. It was, of course, far from satisfactory on the rst try, and he continued to exp eriment, pro ducing a fancier lo oking one in 1711, and his rst real piano in 1720. We do not knowhow many more he made. The Cristofori Piano of 1721 This is b elieved to b e the oldest piano still in existence, and it can b e examined in the ? Metrop olitan Museum of Art, New York. The writer sp ent a long afterno on studying it from every p ossible angle and recording measurements on it the guard b ecame suspicious when I crawled under it, but I managed to convince him that I meant no harm, and was merely very interested in knowing how Cristofori did things; particularly the things that are usually out of sight. Here are some of the notes that I made on it: The case has the standard harpsichord shap e like a thin grand piano, except that the back is cut o square instead of rounded. The \white" keys are of light{colored wood, the \black" keys and key blo cks are apparently of eb ony. It has no p edals. It was discouraging to see that there were lo ose strings and broken parts; no e ort had b een made to restore it to playable condition or even its original app earance, although the latter could have b een y done easily. z This piano encompasses 4:5 o ctaves, C ! F . Most of the notes are double strung 2 6 with thin brass wires, although the lowest four are single thick brass wires. The top treble string is 5" long, and is struck 0.5" from the end; the b ottom bass string is 5.5 feet long and is struck 0.5 fo ot from the end. The key damp ers function in the same way as the mo dern ones, with the p eculiarity that they rise on wires that go between the strings damp ed; one is working at dangerously close quarters here. Todaywewould consider it an error, making a shrill, tinny tone, to strike a middle range string only one tenth of its length from the end. Probably he was only copying Italian harpsichord practice here, not realizing the imp ortance of the striking p oint.
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