/kloc-in 0/709, he took the plucked clavichord as the prototype and made an ancient piano with "strong and weak tone sandhi". He used a mechanical device to pluck the strings with a hammer on the piano, instead of the mechanical device of plucking the strings with an animal feather tube on the clavichord. Therefore, the piano sound is more expressive, and the sound levels are richer. Touching the keys with your fingers can directly control the sound changes.
Bartolomeo Christopher (* 1655) innovated the piano in his studio in Uffizian, Florence, and changed the sound intensity by tapping the keyboard. To this end, he struck the strings with a mallet wrapped in leather through a string striking machine. The newly-built piano was originally named "Gravecembalo piano e forte" (meaning: harpsichord with varying sound intensity), and later abbreviated as "Piano forte" (meaning: strength).
At that time, Christopher's stringed instruments were amazingly perfect. With the help of Prince Ferdinando and medici family, Christopher established a piano factory "Christopher Piano Studio" in Florence.
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1600 12.20, Italian missionary Matteo Ricci from Tianjin set foot in Beijing for the first time. The next day, he led several priests and took tributes to the palace to see Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun. Among many gifts, Zhu Yijun was surprised by an ancient piano with southern strings. Matteo Ricci also brought a highly skilled father Diego de Pantoja to play the clavichord at the command. The small pieces of metal installed at the end of the piano jump one after another on the strings, giving a beautiful and moving melody.
All this touched Zhu Yijun's heart, and he decided to let four eunuchs learn to play this magical foreign musical instrument. Four eunuchs who used to play stringed instruments in the court band came to learn from the priest Diego de Pantoja at the orders of the emperor. Under the careful guidance of Diego de Pantoja, the two eunuchs quickly learned the music they played. But we had to wait for the other two to graduate together, which lasted for more than a month.
After school, because the eunuchs wanted to match their music with China's lyrics, Matteo Ricci specially wrote eight lyrics about ethics and good conduct, and titled them "Eight Chapters of Western Qin Quyi" with the charm of China.
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Baidu encyclopedia-piano