> The instrument remained in the French court until the French Revolution, after which the basso fell out of favor and the “King” was “drastically reduced in si

> The instrument remained in the French court until the French Revolution, after which the basso fell out of favor and the “King” was “drastically reduced in size” through an alteration process that “stood at the forefront of musical instrument development during the last quarter of the 18th century I had to process that sentence a couple of times to understand that the process the author was talking about wasn't the guillotine.