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pianoforte literally is the Italian for loud and soft, and the piano is called this because it can produce loud and soft sounds. Before the invention of the piano keyboard instruments could only produce one level of sound ie loud, so composers worked in stepped dynamics or terraced dynamics ie there were no crescendos. Keyboard instruments used in compositions before the invention of the piano are the organ, the harpsichord, the virginal, the spinnet, the clavichord. Harpsichords have opposite coloured keys to pianos ie the white keys are black and the black keys are white.
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Instruments with keys?
Piano and Keyboard
What are 3 instruments with a keyboard lay out?
A piano, an organ, a carillon
What existed before the piano?
Clavichord is the oldest and quietest keyboard instrument. Harpsichord was very popular in Renaissance and Baroque period. Sound is produced by plucking string when a key is pressed. Other similar but smaller instruments were virginal, muselar and spinet.
What instruments used in the blues?
Guitar and Bass Guitar, sometimes slide guitar, drums, keyboard/piano, even percussive instruments
Which musical instruments have black and white keys?
A harpsicord. It's keyboard can be black or white.
Instruments with keys?
Piano and Keyboard
Which instruments have a musical keyboard?
Keyboard instruments are both acoustic and electric. Some examples of acoustic are piano, accordion, harpsichord and clavichord. Electric keyboard instruments include synthesizers, digital piano and electric organ.
What were the names of the piano before if became the piano?
Fortepiano or pianoforte. Earlier keyboard instruments include the harpsichord, clavichord and virginal.
What are Mitchell Musso's instruments?
Keyboard, guitar, piano, and drums
What are Joe Jonas's instruments?
Guitar, piano, tamberine, and keyboard
Where are there virtual instruments on the internet?
piano, flute whistle keyboard
What are 3 instruments with a keyboard lay out?
A piano, an organ, a carillon
What did bartolomeo cristofori do?
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments. He created the first piano. He invented two keyboard instruments before he began his work on the piano, the harpsichord and oval spinet.
What instrument existed before the piano?
Harpsichord was before the piano.
What existed before the piano?
Clavichord is the oldest and quietest keyboard instrument. Harpsichord was very popular in Renaissance and Baroque period. Sound is produced by plucking string when a key is pressed. Other similar but smaller instruments were virginal, muselar and spinet.
What is piano simliar to?
well i think keyboard as i have had experience of both the instruments.
What are the instruments in grenade by brunomars?
piano keyboard synthesizer drums bass
