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Top: Arts: Music: Instruments: Keyboard: Early: Fortepiano
| No modern piano sites please! Submit sites with significant content relating to the fortepiano, defined for this classification as prior t0 the 20th century. Where other types of early keyboard are also involved, submit to Top:Arts:Music:Instruments:Keyboard: Early_Keyboard. Sites predominantly about modern pianos should be submitted to the appropriate category in Top:Arts:Music:Instruments:Keyboard:Piano |
Fortepiano is the term that is commonly applied to pianos built in an earlier period or style than the 20th Century instrument. They have a different tone and expressivity to the modern instrument. There were two main schools of mechanism: Viennese and English. The English was the precursor of the modern piano.
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