because sound is produced when a hammer stikes a sting. the hammer is controled by pushing one of 88 different keys.
A piano is a percussion instrument. A set of drums is part of the percussion group. If you are in the stream when the grenade explodes underwater, you will suffer the effects of the percussion.
Drums - are part of the percussion group of instruments.
The Piano does not fit under one faily, but two. When you press down on a key [which is percussion], you cause a hammer inside the Piano to hit [also percussion] a string [which goes under the String section], or strings [depending on what key you play].
A piano is member of several groups. First of all, a piano is a string instrument, because its main source of sound is the vibration of the strings. It's also a keyboard instrument (because it is played by touching the keys of the keyboard) and a percussion instrument(and idea of the composer Bela Bartok, if I'm correct; he considered the piano to be a percussive instrument because in a piano the strings are hit by hammers).
It is. It's considered both string and percussion because of the mallets that strike the inside of the piano to make sound (percussion), and the strings inside of the piano (strings).
The piano is a percussion instrument because it has hammers inside it which strike the strings. A percussion instrument is one where something is hit to make a sound.
The piano is a percussion instrument because it has hammers inside it which strike the strings. A percussion instrument is one where something is hit to make a sound.
The piano is a percussion instrument
A piano can be classified as a chordophone and a percussion instrument.
it is a string isntrument. There are some stringed instruments which are in the percussion group because the strings are hit tom make a sournd: Piano, santur
Many people believe that it belongs to the strings family because it have strings in it but it actually it a percussion instrument
The piano is considered a tuned percussion instrument.