Download or read book A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments written by Alfred James Hipkins and published by Detroit : Information Coordinators. This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a description of the modern piano, an account of the acoustical principles that explain why it works as it does, and a complete history of the piano's predecessors, which puts the modern instrument into a proper perspective not only with respect to the harpsichord and the clavichord but also with respect to the piano of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.