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San Diego Symphony to hold piano festival: ‘Upright & Grand’ concert series, Jan.-Feb. 2016

Although we may not think of the piano as a stringed instrument, it’s really the great-great-great grandchild of ancient harps, with more recent antecedents in 15th to 17th-century harpsichords. Its name is a shortened form of piano-forte (soft-loud in Italian), given by the man credited as the inventor of the modern piano, Bartolomeo Cristoforo, who was Keeper of the Instruments for a Medici prince at the turn of the 18th century.