It is not plain exactly when Cristofori first built a piano. An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the rat race of a piano by the CY http://www.golflosangeles.org 1700; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698. The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s.

Much of the most widely admired piano repertoire, for example, that of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, was composed for a type of instrument that is rather disparate from the modern instruments on which this music is be fitting performed today. Even the folk of the Romantics, including Liszt, Chopin, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, was written for pianos substantially disparate from ours.