piano, piano-forte, forte-piano : Terminology - What's your opinion ?

[Avery]

What don't I know here? If it's a harpsichord, it's a harpsichord. Isn't it?
I thought a Virginal was a totally different thing. Been wrong 
before. Probably
am again. But at the university, we have two harpsichords. :-)

Avery Todd

At 09:21 AM 4/17/2006, you wrote:
>I still can't get our organist/choirmaster to call his "harpsichord" 
>by it's technically correct name:  a virginal.  I'm sure not gonna 
>try to change the whole world!!:-)
>JD
>
>
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>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] 
>On Behalf Of Philippe Errembault
>Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 7:59 AM
>To: Pianotech List
>Subject: piano, piano-forte, forte-piano : Terminology - What's your opinion ?
>
>Hello,
>
>Just consulting the french wikipedia, I discovered that piano-forte 
>is the original name of the instrument invented by Cristophori near 
>1700, and it was in a harpsichord like frame, while forte-piano was 
>built around 60 years later by Friederici, on a square frame like a 
>clavichord. This is not matching with what I find on the english wikipedia...
>
>What's your opinios about that ? what instrument should be called 
>what ? Or do you think the names are just not the seme between both langagues ?
>
>
>Philippe Errembault
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