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When a key in the piano is pressed down, it activates a particular wooden hammer inside the piano, hitting a particular string. When you lift your finger off the key, a damper hold the string to stop it from vibrating, thus stopping the sound.
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Is a piano in the string family?
nopeInteresting ObservationThe piano isn't a stringed instrument, but it has strings inside of it. In fact, the sound of a piano is produced from the hammers connected to each key, striking the corresponding string to make the sound. The ironic thing is that its impossible for the piano make a sound with out the strings (seeing as how it is were the sound originates), but since the sound is produced by the hammers striking the strings, it falls under the percussion category.
What effect is produced when the right pedal on the piano is put down?
susspended sound
What instrument is played from a keyboard and hammers hit the strings causing the sound to be produced?
This musical instrument is called Piano.
How is a harpsichords sound produced?
The strings are plucked by a plectrum, which is on the jack.
Why is a piano accordion a wind instrument?
The sound is produced by alternate expansion and contraction of the bellows.
How is the sound of a harp produced?
A harp player produces its unique sound by combining the plucking of lower notes with the longer strings and the higher notes with the shorter strings, much like the way a piano player does with the piano's keys. The core of the strings' sound come from their center.
What device amplifies the notes of the piano produced by the strings?
the sound board - basically a softwood membrane constructed inside the piano so it resonates with the strings and thus amplify the sounds.
Is there a piano that you don't have to tune?
Not really. Piano's that have been tuned quite a bit stay in tune better so a used one might .if you get a keyboard it doesn't need to be tuned.
What is an example of a keyboard instrument that produces its sound from struck strings?
The best known example of this is simply the piano. The sound produced by a piano is made by the action of small felt hammers which strike the strings.
How sound is produced from the piano?
Attached to the keys are hammers that strike strings that are inside the piano. They work kind of like a guitar. The hammer hitting the strings creates air waves and that's what makes the sound. The strings have different thicknesses and they make different sounds when the hammer hits them.
How are the electric piano and the normal piano alike?
They both sound like a piano.
What is the complete subject in the sentence The sound of the piano mixes with the sound of the voices?
What mixes with the sound of the voices ? Subject : The sound of the piano. Correction is welcome, Thank.
