Piano: An Encyclopedia

This new edition encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded to include new technological advances, scholarship, and bibliographic information. An international team of distinguished specialists has contributed over 440 entries including information on everything from builders, composers, and important events to technical descriptions and research discoveries. Uniformly well written and authoritative, this user-friendly guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, and art history and beyond into the electronic age.