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It was then that the notion of striking the strings with a hammer found practical use, and by the addition of this element the piano-forte emerged into existence. The idea appears to have occurred to three men early in the eighteenth century, almost simultaneously Cristofori, an Italian, Marins, a Frenchman, and Schrôter, a German.
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