jan 1, 1700 - Piano
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Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Italy was unsatisfied by the lack of control that musicians had over the volume level of the harpsichord. Around the year 1700, the plucking mechanism was replaced with by the hammer mechanism to create the modern piano.
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