piano

     

The piano is a musical instrument playe by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers. The hammers immediately rebound allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies them.

Trivia about piano

  • Player & upright are 2 common types of this instrument
  • A veteran of Waterloo, Henry Steinway began manufacturing this instrument in the 1830s
  • Keith Jarrett,Barry Manilow,Billy Joel
  • Every piece Chopin composed was for or included this instrument
  • The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories"
  • In Billy Joel's "___ Man"
  • As a young man, Brahms chose this as his main instrument & played it in taverns to make a living
  • Irving Berlin could play this instrument in 1 key only, so he used a special gadget to help him switch keys
  • ...primary performing instrument was this; he wrote 32 sonatas for it
  • Harry Truman & Richard Nixon were the only U.S. presidents to play this musical instrument
  • "New Romantic" artist Richard Clayderman has recorded over 1,000 melodies on this instrument
  • Dr. Teeth & Rowlf play this instrument
  • About half of Liszt's work was transcribing others' works, like Beethoven's symphonies, for this instrument
  • Here are the interior workings of this instrument
  • Like her older brother, Jose, Amparo Iturbi was a virtuoso on this
  • Cecile Chaminade wrote more than 200 light salon pieces for this musical instrument
  • After losing an arm in World War I, Paul Wittgenstein became a one-arm virtuoso on this--earlier than on violin, at least
  • In 1922 Ravel orchestrated "Pictures At An Exhibition", a suite Mussorgsky wrote for this instrument
  • The person playing this instrument is right up on stage in "Dances at a Gathering", to music by Chopin
  • Van Cliburn
  • Van Cliburn
  • In 1709 inventor B. Cristofori gave this instrument a name meaning "harpsichord with soft & loud"
  • Holly Hunter played it:"The _____"
  • The giraffe, an upright type of this keyboard instrument, was shaped somewhat like a giraffe's neck
  • Ravel orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", first written for this instrument
  • A musical instrument:Das Klavier
  • Clara Schumann taught this musical instrument at Frankfurt's Hoch Conservatory
  • Saint-Saens' "Carnival Of The Animals" was composed for 2 of these instruments & ensemble
  • A musical direction meaning to play softly
  • Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" were once the most popular pieces for this instrument
  • Harry Truman
  • Catch a recital by Emanuel Ax, who despite his last name doesn't play guitar but this
  • Architect Renzo
  • Musical instrument in common to the heartthrobs seen here:[Harry Connick, Jr. & Franz Liszt]
  • John Cage came up with the "prepared" type of this instrument by placing objects on, between & under its strings
  • Around 1709 Cristofori became a key player in this new instrument's history
  • Somewhere along the line this instrument's name lost its big finish of "forte"