Bartolomeo Cristofori

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A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

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A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

Double-action pianoforte built by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1720; in the Metropolitan...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.1219), www. metmuseum.org

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