Cristofori pianos with the keyboard range GG - d3

The Cristofori piano finished in 2020
The new 4½ octave Cristofori piano in the exhibition Giuseppe Tartini e la cultura musicale dell’illuminismo in the Museo Diocesano in Padua in May 2021, photo Kerstin Schwarz
Olga Pashenko (pianoforte Cristofori) during the concert on the 12th November 2022 in the Orgelpark in Amsterdam
Menno van Delft (Cristofori piano) and Artem Belogurov (Cristofori piano) during the rehearsal for the concert on the 13th November 2022 in the Orgelpark in Amsterdam
Cristofori piano built in 2015
keyboard
keyboard, escapement und check
the hammer action
the signature on the hammer action
hand forged lock

These Cristofori pianos, completed in 2020 and 2015, have a range of 4½ octaves (GG – d3) to satisfy the requirements of musician clients. We know from documents and the surviving Cristofori instruments that his keyboards did not extend above c3 in the treble, but the basses in some instruments reached down to GG and FF. The number of keys for the range GG-d3 corresponds to the original range of the 1720 Cristofori piano in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (FF, GG, AA – c3). The curve of the nut is based on the Cristofori piano from 1722 in Rome and remaining features such as the string length, the case construction, the inner construction and the hammer action are copied from the Cristofori piano from 1726 in the Grassi-Museum in Leipzig.