How the Piano Came to Be

How the Piano Came to Be by Ellye Howell Glover is a straightforward manual with illustrations about the instrument the piano and its invention. Excerpt: "ROM the dried sinews stretched across the shell of a dead tortoise to the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. Yet to this primitive source, it is said, may be traced the evolution of the stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. The latter has been aptly called "the household orchestra," and in tracing its origin one must go far back into the annals of the past."