Pianos country of origin

Answer 1

It is generally assumed that the black and white pattern of piano key notes is directly linked to the invention of the harpsichord, clavichord and piano.

But what many don't realize is that the piano key layout was already in existence 2000 years before there was ever such a thing as a piano. So while Bartolomeo Cristofori is the noted inventor of the pianoforte around the year 1709, the one thing Cristofori did not invent was the actual piano note chart itself. In order to discover its true origins and learn who was actually responsible for the early development of the piano key chart we must go back more than two millennia, even before the birth of Christ and revisit the very first keyboard instrument ever to exist... The Hydraulis was the oldest ancestor of the modern day church organ and the first musical instrument

to utilize a system of manually operated piano key notes. A Greek engineer named Ctesibius of Alexandria was the inventor of this ancient keyboard instrument in 250 BC

When people talk about piano history, they usually say that the piano originated around the year 1700 in Florence, Italy.

Florence is the capital city of Tuscany, a central region of Italy, and the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.

In 1709, the "pianoforte" was first revealed as the invention of an Italian harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo Cristofori.