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piano

musical keyboard instrument
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Summary

piano is a type of musical instrument[1]. piano ranks in the top 0.25% of type of musical instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39,586 views/month, #1 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Bartolomeo Cristofori[3]
  • Subclass of: struck string instrument[4], keyboard instrument[5], box zither[6]
  • Commons category: Pianos[7]
  • Inception: 1720[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1700[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Piano[10]
  • Commons gallery: Piano[11]
  • Location of creation: Florence[12]
  • Described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17]
  • Official name: gravicembalo col piano e forte[18]
  • Used by: pianist[19]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 314.122-4-8[20]
  • Different from: piano[21]
  • Highest note: C8[22]
  • Lowest note: A[23]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[24], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25]

Why It Matters

piano has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] piano is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . art.kyusan-u.ac.jp. Retrieved . art.kyusan-u.ac.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'a
    Sitelink count → 172
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-1C1P-Pw3T-AgNw
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-1C1P-Pw3T-AgNw, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250707043|fortepian (#250707043)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl topi"
  2. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → piano
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: piano, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950103|piano (#289950103)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010087-klavir
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0010087-klavir, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 22w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers id → 5028
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers id: 5028, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/169894505|piano (#169894505)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → struck string instrument, keyboard instrument, box zither
    Instance of → type of musical instrument
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 11690, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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