A piano is a musical instrument with keyboard. It has strings which are stuck by hammers when the keys are depressed. |
A piano is a musical instrument with a keyboard. It has strings which are stuck by hammers when one or more of its 88 keys are depressed. |
It is said to have been invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, who originally called it a "gravicembalo col piano e forte" -- a large harpsichord with soft and loud. "Pianoforte" stuck as the name for the instrument. |
It is said to have been invented by [Bartolomeo Cristofori]?, who originally called it a "gravicembalo col piano e forte" -- a large harpsichord? with soft and loud. "Pianoforte" stuck as the name for the instrument. |
Early pianos had wooden frames, two strings per note, and deerskin-covered hammers. The development of the modern piano owes much to the collaboration between Beethoven and the English firm of Broadwood: as Beethoven grew progressively more deaf, the instruments that Broadwood sent him grew progressively larger, louder, and more robustly constructed -- iron frames, three strings per note, the modern felt-covered hammer. |
Early pianos had wooden frames, two strings per note, and deerskin-covered hammers. The development of the modern piano owes much to the collaboration between Beethoven and the English firm of Broadwood: as Beethoven grew progressively more deaf, the instruments that Broadwood sent him grew progressively larger, louder, and more robustly constructed -- iron frames, three strings per note, the modern felt-covered hammer. |
Much great music has been written for the piano... |
Much great music has been written for the piano... A person who plays a piano is known as a pianist. |