Percussion Instruments

You can find the sheet at any good music stores but dont go 2 basic shops because they will not have it or you order it of the internet

Pianos produce music using keys, those keys trigger hammers on arms within the body of the Piano. The hammer swings up, strikes a piano wire, and the vibration produces a tone. When you combine these tones by pressing various keys in planned methods, you produce music.

There are also pedals at the base of the piano which can be used to alter the sound made when the hammer strikes the metal piano wire.

Cymbals were first used in the early civilization of Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. Around that time, Metalworkers had discovered that they could make their tools stronger by mixing copper with a little tin, an alloy they called bronze. This Turkish bronze was first used for military and religious purposes, but gradually began to be used for musical instruments. By 1300 A.D., the Turks were becoming very proficient at cymbal making, and the cymbal had become a fixture in their music.

Percuss is a medical term, to strike. When the doctor percusses your chest, she is striking it.

So a percussion instrument is struck, mainly. There are others that you can shake, rattle or stroke, but they are usually struck.

orchestral bells or the glockenspiel.

Celesta if you are doing a crossword puzzle.

The snare drum, the cymbals, woodblock, maracas, tambourine

The Wissner Piano Company (also known as Wissner & Sons) was established by Otto Wissner and his sons, William and Otto, Jr. in 1878. Their factories were located in Brooklyn, New York. Wissner is one of the lesser-known American piano manufacturers who built superb pianos of the highest quality and construction, but because of poor marketing, never achieved the world wide recognition they deserved. Their pianos were some of the finest, most expensive pianos money could buy. In addition to building pianos under the Wissner and Wissner & Sons brand names, the firm built pianos under the brand names of Leckerling, Reinhard, and Putnam. In the early 20th Century the firm was controlled by the Jansen Piano Company. The Wissner Company went out of business in about 1942 with the onset of World War 2.

I may not be 100% accurate on this but I believe I have a pretty good idea. In an ensemble setting, the idea is to provide the best balance possible. That is why more powerful instruments, like the brass, specifically the trombones and tubas are in the back of the ensemble and the flutes and piccolos will be in the front. It would be very imbalanced if it were reversed. Typically the percussion instruments will be placed in the back of an ensemble or orchestra. These instruments are typically very assertive and powerful. Like a bass drum that is very bold and loud or a snare drum that is very sharp and penetrating. Also, percussionists typically stand up when they are playing, unlike the majority of the band. Just about every instrument group will be sitting, except maybe the upright bass players of an orchestra. This makes the placement common sense, because you don't want them to be standing in the front of the band blocking the view of other musicians.

No. Actually it is a woodwind instrament. :)

Alpheus Babcock of Boston (USA) in 1825

The exact origins of why there were a certain number of keys on a piano are unknown. What we do know from history is that the piano in the US consisted of 88 keys after 1885. The generally accepted number of piano keys is as follows: * 1700-1765 5 Octaves (5 x 12 = 60 keys) * 1765-1794 5 Octaves plus a 4th * 1794-1804 6 Octaves (6 x 12 = 72 keys) * 1804-1824 6 Octaves plus a 4th * 1824-1880 7 Octaves (7 x 12 = 84 keys) * 1880-Present 7 Octaves plus a 4th What we do know is that the piano, with 88 keys, is capable of reproducing the entire multiple octave spectrum of instruments used in an orchestra or band. Interesting to note that the Bosendorfer 9' 6" Concert Grand has 97 keys. The extra keys are at the bottom of the keyboard, extending from low A down to a growling really low C. As far as we know, there is no piano literature written that includes any played notes beyond the lowest A on a standard 88 key piano.

The immediate forerunners of the piano were the harpsichord and the clavichord.

The harpsichord mechanism draws a quill past a string in a plucking action, like a lute. As the key is released, a moveable damper returns to contact the string and mute it.


The clavichord has fixed dampers. The mechanism brings a metal tangent against the string to both strike it and act as a bridge to give it definite pitch.


The forte piano combined the striking action with the moveable damper and added other refinements to improve dynamic range and stability of pitch.

Prince William, among others, plays the piano.

Check YouTube for a 1985 video.

the reason sound vibrates is because of tuning if their are two instruments playing t the same time their sound waves hit eachother creating a faster wave length which makes it sound like the sound is vibrating.

In order---soft, hold, loud

Leftmost pedal: Pianissimo: moves the hammers closer to the strings that produce a softer sound. On grand pianos (horizontal instrument) the entire keyboard moves to the right allowing the hammers to hit only one string instead of 3 strings as they normally would.

Middle pedal: Different manufacturers perform different tasks:

- some sustain the lower notes only, like from tenor c downwards,

- others (Young Chang for instance) drop a piece of felt between the hammers and the strings, producing a very subdued tone - used more for practicing as opposed to performance.

Rightmost pedal: Sustain Pedal. Not necessarily a "loud" pedal. Loudness is accomplished by how much weight one uses when playing the piano keys. A heavier touch produces a louder sound - one can hold the sustain pedal down and produce very soft music, too. When this pedal is depressed, the dampers are pulled away from all the strings. As long as this pedal is used, all strings will continue to resonate until they stop vibrating.

In New Orleans in the late 1800's and early 1900's the African origins of the black musicians mixed with the sounds of military bands and possibly Spanish and French dance music. Unfortunately for history, there were no recordings of the formative years .Prominent drummers in the earliest recorded jazz were Baby Dodds and Paul Barbarin.

There are 52 white keys and 36 black keys on piano, what makes total 88 keys.

Most of the modern pianos have 88 keys.

Only because 'piano' is an abbreviated form of the instruments correct title, the correct name is is 'Pianoforte'

The piano was created in the 16th and 17th centuries. The piano is basically strings that are encased in a wooden shell to allow more vibrancy. and when the keys are hit a mallet strikes the strings which vibrate and cause the sound.

The symbol for piano is music is a bold italics p which looks very similar to this: p

It means play loudly on the piano.

A piano recital is a formal concert that usually features students who are currently studying piano performance. Each student typically performs one piece before leaving the stage, letting another student come on stage. Because a recital is a formal concert, it is often required that the performers dress in a tuxedo or a dress and that audience members dress formally as well. Talking during a recital is frowned upon and, depending on the director, audience members may be called out and reminded to be silent.