... 01_749907 ffirs.qxp 3/21/06 5:35 PM Page iii Piano by Mary Sue Taylor and Tere Stouffer 01_749907 ffirs.qxp 3/21/06 5:35 PM Page iv Teach Yourself VISUALLY Piano Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, ... of the piano and look at how today’s piano is constructed 03_749907 ch01.qxp 3/21/06 5:31 PM Page The Sounding Board The Piano chapter The piano s sounding board, an internal part of the piano ... as the fortepiano, which distinguished the eighteenth-century instrument from its predecessors and today’s piano, the full name of which is the pianoforte Cristofori’s early fortepiano had one...