Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after 500 years

Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after ... by fallingOff on Thursday November 21, 2013 @01:46AM (#6773413)

Does anyone know how long use of this instrument persisted? Wikipedia says that a similar instrument was built in 1575.

I expected to hear period pieces, but instead the performer played Baroque and Classical era music.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after ... by ffk on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:03AM (#6773452)

The wording of the article suggests it has never been played to an audience until this year. I suspect it was never built until now.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after ... by mgnn on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:27AM (#6773499)

According to this interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrn_z9m9lU

There were several old builds of the instrument, but they were all lost one way or another.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after ... by kzrdude on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:18AM (#6773620)

Thanks! A much better video since you can see partly how the instrument works. I like his decoration of the instrument, including the text and year in latin; I guess he is planning for this reconstruction to survive the centuries where the others didn't.

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