Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Piano
Invented
c. 1700
An approximate date (to the decade); it only duels items at least 20 years away.
Bartolomeo Cristofori’s hammer mechanism let players play soft and loud.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1700Q5994, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“instrumentbyggeren Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) regnes som pianoets oppfinner. Han utviklet hammermekanikken rundt år 1700. Hammerklaveret imøtekom ønsket om en kontrollerbar dynamikk og en mer bærekraftig”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“Tegnestue/Hans Møller/Jakob Skou-Hansen . Licens: Begrænset anvendelse Hammerklaverets historie går tilbage til ca. 1700, da italieneren Bartolomeo Cristofori opfandt et tasteinstrument – et andet ord for”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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