• the tangent piano is a rare keyboard instrument that fuses the sound of the harpsichord and piano?
• in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha (pictured), was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
• Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet's work so he could earn more from its sale?

Facts on topics related to Harpsichord

Concerto

• Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra?
• What Leave Behind is a concerto for electric guitar and toy orchestra performed by Toychestra and Fred Frith?

Piano

• Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party?
• pianist Mona Golabek wrote a book about her mother's experience as part of the Kindertransport, a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis?
• piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Maryla Jonas, debuted at the age of 9?
• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School?
• Robert Riefling, who debuted as a classical pianist in 1922, was appointed Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music more than fifty years later?
• William Sharman, a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, is also a classically trained pianist and has a master's in banking and finance?
• Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt"?
• Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
• the Australian singer Jade MacRae started learning the piano at age 8?
• the Scottish composer and pianist Ronald Stevenson composed an 80-minute passacaglia for solo piano based on the four-note motif D-E♭-C-B?

Baroque music

• "Giovanni Henrico Albicastro", the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria?
• when Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London?