New Delhi: You may know that Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano but did you know that the innovation behind it was a hammer mechanism. Here're five interesting things about Cristofori and how this musical doodle was put together.
1. Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian musical instrument maker credited with inventing the pianoforte, or the piano. One of his biggest innovations was creating a hammer mechanism that struck the strings on a keyboard to create sound. The use of a hammer made it possible to produce softer or louder sounds depending upon how light or hard a player pressed on the keys. In fact, that's how Cristofori's new instrument got its name - in Italian, piano means soft, while forte means loud.
2. The music that is being played in the doodle is from Johann Sebastian Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. This is because it's from the same time period as Cristofori's life.
3. Doodler Leon Hong was also looking for a memorable tune composed of notes with all the same duration so it would fit nicely with the animations. The timing and loudness had to be precise and consistent so he plotted the notes using software and rendered the sound files with a virtual piano instrument.
4. The doodle began with several sketches on paper after a round of research. "For this particular doodle, everybody knows what a piano looks and sounds like so it was difficult to think of simple concepts that could be both educational and visually delightful to a large audience. For some reason when I first came up with the idea of a volume control slider labelled with 'piano' and 'forte' it made me chuckle. It stuck and I began fleshing out the details soon after," said the doodler.
5. Doodler Hong says his favourite part of the doodle is the animation of Cristofori playing when the volume is set on forte. If he had more time he would have put even more bounce to his bottom.
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