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Piano

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Sign: Patent Kress
Wilhelm Kress paino maker (and aircraft constructor) in 1885 invented the “Cottage-Piano”, a kind of “piano with a diagonally set resonant bottom, oblique ratchet and strings, which were connected to resonant chambers”. It was the same size as an upright piano, yet had a full tone.

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- Since its foundation in 1969, the Institute of Music of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences has been collecting objects related to the...

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