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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Antonio Stradivari, Amati, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Roberto Regazzi, Matteo Goffriller, Leandro Bisiach, Luigi Russolo, Viscount, Andrea Guarneri, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Giuseppe Guarneri, Carlo Bisiach, Otello Bignami, Francesco Landini, Giuseppe Fiorini, Raffaele Fiorini, Cesare Candi, Sesto Rocchi, Paolo de Barbieri, Pietro Giovanni Guarneri, Giovanni Battista Ceruti, Gaetano and Pietro Sgarabotto, Igino Sderci, Augusto Pollastri, Gaetano Pollastri, Rafe Stefanini, Ansaldo Poggi, Lorenzo Storioni, Giuseppe Bernardo Lecchi, Nicolo Amati, Ferdinando Garimberti, Oreste Candi, Romeo Antoniazzi, Riccardo Antoniazzi, Gaetano Antoniazzi, Enrico Rocca, Luigi Borgato, Enrico Ceruti, Gavioli, Giuseppe Ornati, Giuseppe Pedrazzini, Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Giuseppe Rocca, Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, Celeste Farotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Albanelli, Omobono Stradivari, Stefano Scarampella, Pellegrino Micheli, William Ebsworth Hill, Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Pietro Guarneri, Goffredo Cappa, Bontempi, Paolo Grancino, Francesco Goffriller, Giovan Giacomo Dalla Corna, Giuseppe Donati, Annibale Fagnola, Nicola Lazzari, Joan Maria da Bressa, Nicolo Gagliano, Giuseppe Lepri, Tieffenbrucker, Paolo Guadagnini, Carlo Tononi. Excerpt: Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 - January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. The available source materials on Cristofori's life include his birth and death records, two wills, the bills he submitted to his employers, and a single interview done by Scipione Maffei. From the latter, we have both Maffei's notes and the published journal article. Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic of Venice. Nothing is known of his early life. A tale is told that he served as an apprentice to the great...
