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29280	Glover, Ellye Howell	How the Piano Came to Be			.txt	text/plain	6635	383	73	the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. the stringed instrument is of very ancient date. He set to work to make a musical instrument, using the shell the Hebrews that these people had stringed musical instruments at a Just how many strings Hermes had on his tortoise-shell instrument is a The virginal, spinet, and harpsichord followed the clavichord The instrument which belonged, once upon a time, to Mary Queen of Scots that the instrument must have been almost as commonly used as the piano [Illustration: Christofori Piano from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his manuscripts he mentions an instrument called _piano e forte_. at the clavichord, not while at the piano or harpsichord." whole community, stating that the coming of the new musical instrument Ten or twelve pianos were all he could make in one year and, to	./cache/29280.txt	./txt/29280.txt