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The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called a pianist.
The piano is an acoustic, keyboard and stringed musical instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather).
A piano is a keyboard musical instrument. It has wire strings that produce sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard. The standard modern piano contains 88 keys and has a compass of seven full octaves plus a few keys.
The modern piano has a heavy metal frame, thick strings made of top-grade steel, and a sturdy action with a substantial touch weight. These changes have created a piano with a powerful tone that carries well in large halls, and which produces notes with a very long sustain time.
Mastering the piano takes even talented musicians many years of study, but you can learn the basics of playing this instrument in a relatively short period of time. Once you have these under your belt, you'll have to practice for these...
Before the Piano. Despite its classic black and white keys, the piano shares its roots with stringed instruments—vibrating strings producing tones at different tensions and lengths. But the piano owes its creation to the evolution of three instruments: the hammered dulcimer, the clavichord, and the harpsichord. Hammered Dulcimer
The ancestry of the piano begins in the year 500 BC when the Greeks invented the first Monochord. Monochord literally means one chord, and this instrument consists of one metal string stretched tightly over a hollow body of wood called a resonator table.
300 years of the the history of the piano, from early instrument to modern grand. Find out how innovations in technology have changed piano building.
The piano action mechanism [1] (also known as the key action mechanism [2] or simply the action) of a piano or other musical keyboard is the mechanical assembly which translates the depression of the keys into rapid motion of a hammer, which creates sound by striking the strings.
The piano, attributed to Bartolomeo Cristofori of the eighteenth century, is a popular keyboard instrument widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal.