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On Fazioli concert grand pianos, there is a fourth pedal which moves the hammers closer or farther away from the strings, giving an entirely different sound than the ''una corda'' pedal.

On Fazioli concert grand pianos, there is a fourth pedal which moves the hammers closer or farther away from the strings, giving an entirely different sound than the ''una corda'' pedal.

==History==  

==History==

In 1700 a keyboard player was faced with [[harpsichord]] or one of its siblings, which had brilliant sound but little dynamic modulation, and even fewer expressive qualities; or the [[clavichord]] on which one could control the dynamics through touch, but only softly, and with little chance of being heard within an ensemble. (There was the dulcimer, but it had no keyboard.) Starting from around this date when an [[Italian]], one Bartolemeo Cristofori, began experimenting with “a harpsichord with loud and soft”, to the first decades of the 19th century when the piano reached its more or less modern form, the development of the piano went ahead in Germany and Austria, France, England and America – developments in the mechanics of the action, on the shape and strength of the box, the introduction finally in America of the single-cast immensely strong metal frame, improvements in the pedal action; all helped the formation of an instrument that was to be as suitable for the family parlour as in the concert hall.

In 1700 a keyboard player was faced with [[harpsichord]] or one of its siblings, which had brilliant sound but little dynamic modulation, and even fewer expressive qualities; or the [[clavichord]] on which one could control the dynamics through touch, but only softly, and with little chance of being heard within an ensemble. (There was the dulcimer, but it had no keyboard.) Starting from around this date when an [[Italian]], one Bartolemeo Cristofori, began experimenting with “a harpsichord with loud and soft”, to the first decades of the 19th century when the piano reached its more or less modern form, the development of the piano went ahead in Germany and Austria, France, England and America – developments in the mechanics of the action, on the shape and strength of the box, the introduction finally in America of the single-cast immensely strong metal frame, improvements in the pedal action; all helped the formation of an instrument that was to be as suitable for the family parlour as in the concert hall.

==Famous pop pianists==

==Famous pop pianists==

 

*[[Elton John]]   

*[[Elton John]]   

*[[Ben Folds]]  

*[[Ben Folds]]