History has it that shortly before 17^th century; an Italian harpsichord creator by the name of Bartolomeo Cristofori urbanized the essential feature of the piano: The actions - instead of plucking strings.

However despite its potential, the piano would you believe was initially slow to catch on, and it was not till the latter part of the 17^th century before composers began to write music especially for this musical instrument. Famous names of Hadyn Clementi, and Mozart were just some of the pioneers who contributed to the popularity of the piano. Over the years, innovations in design and materials helped make the piano more flexible and ideally suited to the wants of those famous composers, and before the 1900s Beethoven was making his name as a maestro who went on to be one of the world`s best known musicians writing extensively for the piano.

Scientifically, modernism prevailed on all fronts and still continues to this day. 

Pianos today have evolved to scope from the large concert grand to the compact uprights. The piano still takes claim of being one of the most popular musical instruments ever engineered to produce the greatest of sounds, and this was proven by the soft and mellow legatos of Chopin to the dominant poundings of Rachmaninoff – only to be followed later down the line by Russ Conway and the never forgotten Liberace.