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	Fortepiano
		The fortepiano has a range of five octaves and five notes (or only 66 keys as opposed to our modern piano's 88) and can accommodate Beethoven's early period fortepiano works (and some sonatas from the middle period).
		The fortepiano employs hammers to stike the strings with varying force, producing both loud ("forte") or soft ("piano") tones (thus the name, "fortepiano" or "pianoforte").
		On this fortepiano, knee levers rather than foot pedals are used to activate the dampers and moderator (or mute) stop.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/beethoven/description/fortepiano.html (233 words)

	Newport Classic - 11 Willow street, Newport RI 02840 - The Composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Internationally known as a performer on the harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, and, more recently on the modern piano, both as a solo recitalist and as a member of the Kipnis-Kushner Duo (one piano, four hands).
		Following the tradition of Lotte Lehman Julianne Baird, accompanied by Andrew Willis on fortepiano gives brilliant performance of the original version of this great song cycle.
		John Van Buskirk plays a fortepiano which is a replica of the composers own instrument the Abegg Variations, Papillions and Paganini Studies.
	www.newport-cd.com /newcomp.htm (5039 words)

	Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Essential Piano Music CDs to Start Your Classical Music Collection
		In the mid-eighteenth century a new instrument came into style that played by striking wooden hammers against strings, rather than plucking them.
		It was called a fortepiano, since it could play both loud (forte) and soft (piano).
		At some point the name got switched around to pianoforte, or just piano for short.
	www.classicalcdguide.com /genres/piano.htm (1692 words)

	Galpin Society Journal Reviews
		KATALIN KOMLÓS: Fortepianos and their Music: Germany, Austria and England, 1760-1800.
		PASCALE VANDERVELLEN: Le Piano de style en Europe des origines à 1850.
		ISBN 0 19 316406 X. Appunti per una bibliografia sul clavecembalo e fortepiano.
	www.music.ed.ac.uk /euchmi/galpin/gwtr.html (6257 words)

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