Fortepiano ( What's that?????? )

[gordon stelter]

Thanks, Conrad,
     Essentially what I'm getting at is this: If the
FIRST piano was called a "clavicembalo piano et
forte", why do some people use "fortepiano" to
describe similar early, or even later instruments????
     Is this just a silly affectation by the sort of
people who value themselves according to what they
posess to sound elite, effete, and exclusive???
    I am sorry, but it has always sounded that way to
me, and until someone shows me an ad for one of these
things from the time it was made CALLING it a
"fortepiano", I will remain of this conviction.
    Thanks again!
    Thump

 
--- Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu>
wrote:
> At 11:00 12/14/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >How is a  "Fortepiano" different from a
> >"Pianoforte"???
> >     When did "Fortepiano" come into usage???
> >     IMWTK,
> >     Thump
> 
> 
> Thumpster,
> 
> The fortepiano here came into use about April 1987
> when I completed a 
> Zuckermann rendition of a Stein instrument such as
> Mozart would have used.
> 
> Oh, you meant generally?  ;-}
> 
> There are fine gradations (dates, configurations,
> etc.), not unlike the 
> "square" question, which I can not currently bring
> to mind.  There have 
> been discussions on this list in the past Re:
> nomenclature of certain 
> instruments. I would refer you to the archives.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer
> 
> I don't care who you are, mister, those reindeer are
> ruining my roof.
> 
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