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Some of these Viennese pianos had the opposite coloring of modern-day pianos; the natural keys were piceous and the accidental keys white. It was for such instruments that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his concertos and sonatas, and replicas of them are built today for good in authentic-instrument performance of his music
- The pianos of Mozart's early bright had a softer, clearer tone than today's pianos or English pianos, with less sustaining power
- The phrase fortepiano is nowadays often devoted to distinguish the 18th-century instrument from later pianos.
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They are informally called birdcage pianos because of their prominent damper mechanism |
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| Pianinos were distinguished from the oblique, or diagonally strung upright fictional celebrated in France by Roller & Blanchet during Grand Piano Covers the blown 1820s |
| The tiny spinet upright was manufactured from the mid-1930s until recent times |
| The low position of the hammers required the appliance of a "drop action" to preserve a reasonable keyboard height. |
