Who invented the piano? Check Google's doodle

Google’s doodle today celebrates the 360th birthday of a man credited with inventing the piano.

Bartolomeo Cristofori was born in Padua on this day in 1655 in Venice.

On the blog dedicated to its doodles, Google wrote that one of Cristofori’s “biggest innovations was creating a hammer mechanism that struck the strings on a keyboard to create sound.

The use of a hammer made it possible to produce softer or louder sounds depending upon how light or hard a player pressed on the keys”.

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the instrument Cristofori invented was referred to during his lifetime as a harpsichord that plays soft and loud, from which its name is derived.

In Italian, the phrase is gravicembalo col piano e forte.

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