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From Clavichord to the Modern Piano

December 26, 2018 //  by HurleyPiano

My students are fascinated to hear that Beethoven demanded that the piano have 88 keys. He ways not happy with the limited range of the keyboard and he started writing pieces with a keyboard range that did not yet exist. So industry had to build the new expanded pianos in order to hear his music. This video documents the journey from the clavichord to what we know as the modern day piano.

 

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