Bartolomeo Cristofion

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The first piando was invented in approximated in 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristifion in Italy. Bartolome Cristofion Italian instrument inventor, he invented the piano and two other keyboard instruments, the spinettone and the oval spinet. The piano is fouded on the earlier technological innovation. The 14th and 15th centuries was the development of different kinds of keyboard stringed instrument.

At the time that Bartolomeo Cristofion invented the piano, the most popular keyboard instruments were the harpsichord and the clavichord. Both instrument looked like the piano. The difference between them and the modern piano is the way their sound. The word piano is an shortened form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s version of the instrument.

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