#16.
The story of X begins in Padua, Italy in 1709, in the shop of a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori. Many other stringed and keyboard instruments preceded X and led to the development of the instrument as we know it today. The earliest of these were dulcimer which led to the development of the clavichord, then followed by the spinet, virginal, clavecin, gravicembalo, and finally, the harpsichord in the 15th century. First exhibited in Florence in 1709, Cristofori’s new instrument was named gravicembalo col X e forte. His earliest surviving X dates from 1720 and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
ID X.
The story of X begins in Padua, Italy in 1709, in the shop of a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori. Many other stringed and keyboard instruments preceded X and led to the development of the instrument as we know it today. The earliest of these were dulcimer which led to the development of the clavichord, then followed by the spinet, virginal, clavecin, gravicembalo, and finally, the harpsichord in the 15th century. First exhibited in Florence in 1709, Cristofori’s new instrument was named gravicembalo col X e forte. His earliest surviving X dates from 1720 and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
ID X.
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