John Broadwood
John Broadwood John Broadwood (born 6 October 1732 in Oldhamstocks, died ... is the founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons. He inherited his father's ... s daughter. Shudi died in 1773, and Broadwood took control of the company from his brother-in-law in 1783. Broadwood and his acquaintances William Stodart and ...
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Broadwood and Sons
Broadwood and Sons Broadwood and Sons is the oldest and one ... the world, named after its founder John Broadwood. The instruments have been played by musicians ... holds the Royal Warrant as manufacturer of pianos to Queen Elizabeth II. External links Broadwood in the Piano - Photoarchive
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Fortepiano
... six octaves. (The range of most modern pianos, attained in the 19th century, is 7 ... devices similar to the pedals of modern pianos; but these were not always pedals: sometimes ... in the mid range. In comparison, modern pianos are rather more uniform in sound through ... of contemporary harpsichords. As with all later pianos, in Cristofori's instruments the hammers struck ... in Freiberg in Germany, began to make pianos based on Cristofori's design around ...
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Piano   (translated from French)
... solves a fundamental mechanical problem of the pianos: the hammers must strike the cords but ... of the cords. Almost all the following pianos used this invention. Silbermann showed in Bach ... daughter Nannette Stein like Anton Walter. The pianos of style "Viennese" were manufactured without framework ... more clearly than that of the modern pianos, with a behaviour of the less important ... 3 (even sometimes more) of the modern pianos. During the first part of this ...
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Talk:Piano
... wanted to remove the bit about "grand pianos are too large for domestic use" -- I ... of the piano from its invention to Broadwood (or thereabouts), but, to be honest, it ... s una corda function -- which on grand pianos moves the entire action, thereby making the ... don't understand "The very best upright pianos are comparable in sound quality and responsiveness to grand pianos of the same size." Surely no ...
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Jean-Henri Pape
... 1815, he established his own manufacture of pianos, and almost annually for nearly forty years ... them with new inventions. His first grand pianos followed the English system of Broadwood and Tomkinson, though endowed with mechanical genius ... concentrated on defects in square and grand pianos caused by the structural gap between the ... lacked some lightness and delicacy in grand pianos. The variations he introduced in the ...
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Board piano   (translated from German)
... as buffet o. ae. are used. Board pianos were in the entire 19. Century much ... with English instruments. Starting from 1850 board pianos were increasingly industrially manufactured. The first instruments ... in series with up to 600 coworkers (Broadwood) one manufactured now. Board pianos are always underestimated and something in its ... the left of Photo archives of hammer pianos
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Jan Ladislav Dussek
... music because of his friendship with John Broadwood, the developer of the "English Action" piano ... range not available in the then current pianos, he pushed Broadwood into several extensions of the range and ... sonority of the instrument. It was a Broadwood instrument with Dussek's improvements that was ... while Dussek was having dinner with John Broadwood that his wife left with her ...
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John Field   (translated from German)
... one hand, in order to present the pianos, which Clementi had built, on the other ... No. 2 and NR. 3) on a Broadwood broadwood-Piano of 1802 easily, whereby Staier - to ...
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Royal Warrant
... Cocker & Sons - roses Jenners - furnishing materials John Broadwood and Sons - pianos Linn Products - entertainment (hi-fi) systems Laphroaig ... Kaiser Franz Josef I Baczewski - Vodka Bösendorfer - Pianos Demel - Cakes Sacher - Cakes (to be completed ...
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