Grand Piano Covers
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Although there were earlier attempts to make stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings, most notably hammered dulcimers such as the Iranian instruments santur and santoor, the gadget of the concomitant piano is Grand Piano Covers credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Prince Ferdinand de Medici as the Keeper of the Instruments.
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Almost every modern piano dead duck 36 murky keys and 52 white keys for a total of 88 keys (seven octaves increased a minor third, from A0 to C8) |
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| Legion older pianos only have 85 keys (seven octaves from A0 to A7), while some manufacturers extend the range further in one or both directions. |