This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano.

The first comprehensive study of Bartolomeo Cristofori's working life, featuring detailed technical documentation about his instruments.

English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tall

David Rowland traces the history of piano pedaling from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to its first maturity in the middle of the nineteenth century a