The Piano Makers
Who actually built the piano? Scroll through the great making schools — Cristofori's Florence, Vienna, London, Paris and the modern age — tap a maker for a museum placard, and zoom deep into real instruments including the oldest surviving piano in the world. Everything here is public domain or openly licensed.
♩ Same years, other keyboard: while Cristofori, Stein and Érard were building these pianos, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin were writing for them. See the composers on the Piano Through Time timeline →