Percussion Instruments

There are different kinds of percussion instruments, and they have different tone colors. A snare drum makes a high-pitched, sudden, and fairly sharp sound when hit with a drumstick. The timpani are tuned instruments, and usually hit with soft mallets rather than drumsticks, so their sound is more "rounded" and mellower, as well as much lower in pitch.

The orchestra bells are pitched instruments, with keys made of metal, that are usually hit with fairly hard mallets, so the sound is somewhat sharp and bright; the xylophone has similar keys, but they are made of wood, so the sound when they are hit is somewhat - well, woodier. It is not as bright or as sharp as hitting metal, and usually softer in volume.

Pianos are also percussion instruments, and they can make quite a few different tone colors.

The answer to the question depends on the definition of piano tuner. If you assume the question refers to professional piano tuners only, and includes those professional piano tuners who are not exclusively piano tuners, the number could be approximated as follows:

Number of piano tuners in the world = (number of pianos that are periodically tuned in the world / average number of years between tunes for a periodically tuned piano) / average number of pianos tuned per year by piano tuners.


Now:


The number of pianos in the world = (the population of the world / number of people per household) * the number of pianos per household.


The number of periodically tuned pianos in the world = the number of pianos in the world * the percentage of pianos that are periodically tuned.


Where:


The population of the world = 7,000,000,000
Number of people per household = 5.5
Number of pianos per household = 0.02
Percentage of pianos that are periodically tuned = 40%
Average number of years between tunes for a periodically tuned piano = 5
Average number of pianos tuned per year by piano tuners = 100


Number of piano tuners in the world = (7,000,000,000 / 5.5 * 0.02 * 40%) / 5 / 100 = 20,364


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No, Andy Six does not know how to play the piano.

xylophone, chimes, marimbas, drums and ride cymbals under certain circumstances, timpani, and many other percussion instruments can use the hammer/mallet to play it. Technically, the piano use hammers on the strings to produce sound, and the harpiscord plucks at the strings, but it is categorized as a string instrument.

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Snare Drum

Bass Drum

And Surdo Drum

Many people play the piano for various reasons. For example i play the piano because i forget all my troubles while doing so. Many people play it for their amusmant but, some are made to.

People have talents, and they want to use it. Or, for fun. I play the piano because when I play it, I feel strangely happy.

a Glockenspiel or Orchestra bells or bells. Either one works

Classically, they were made of ebony wood, but ebony is much too scarce and expensive to be used now, so today they are made of a very hard wood (typically maple or rosewood) polished very smooth, and coated with a plastic resin or black lacquer.,

The word "percussion" comes from Latin which means "to beat, strike" in the musical sense, rather than the violent action.

First percussion instruments were made in ancient times when deer skin was beaten up with a stick to produce sound. That technique is yet continued but the base of beating has changed and different metals, wood, plastic and fibres are now used.

So they were an invent of human mind evolved not discovered.

No, Liszt's father was a talented pianist and cellist and taught him from the age of 6.

The didgeridoo is a musical instrument (woodwind) native to Australia.

A synthesizer does not sound like a piano. You could create piano type sounds on one though. A synthesizer is basically a set of oscillators that modify a waveform to create a sound. There's a bunch of different types of filters depending on the type of synthesizer.

Yes and No. I have played piano for 6+ years (and still am learning) and have learned so much since then. I learned on a Baldwin spinet piano and i have to say , they are not the best and don't even come too close either. although the original owner and founder of Baldwin (formerly called Decker Brothers) vowed to build the best piano that can be built, they failed at this objective and filed for bankruptcy in 1983 for $9Billion. On the bright side, many professional pianist have chosen to perform on Baldwin grands instead of better brands because of the quality that was put into each instrument. Like every piano brand and type, Baldwins have a unique sound to them that I have never really liked but some people do. about 90-95% of Baldwin pianos you find will be MADE IN USA. mine is. the others will be made over seas. Baldwin did this to try to save money, this as well failed and they filed for bankruptcy again in 2005 and were bought by the Gibson Guitar Company. Baldwin is a very good company that should please anybody, but remember the most important tip in buying a piano: TRY IT OUT BEFORE YOU BUY IT. if you don't play, bring a tuner or other technician that would know what their looking at. if your starting out, Baldwin is perfect, if you're intermediate, Baldwin is still good, if you go pro, GO STEINWAY. Steinway is the best piano manufacturer out there (as well as the most expensive). brands exceeding Baldwin in quality are: Steinway and Sons, Mason and Hamlin, Kawai, Bosendorfer, Stuart and Sons, and Yamaha. Overall, Yes, Baldwin is a good brand of piano. Baldwin seized production in December of 2008.

By it only having four digits four the serial number it could have possibly been made around 1915 to 1925.

On a piano keyboard, C is the white key immediately below (to the left of) any group of two black keys. The rest of the white keys proceed in alphabetical order, starting with A (two white notes to the left of C), and ending with G, after which they start again with A. Visually, using a vertical bar (|) to represent a black key, it would look like this:

. . . C | D | E F | G | A | B C | D | E . . .

On a full-sized piano keyboard, the lowest key is A and the highest key is C, but this may not be the case on an electronic keyboard.

There are 'tuned' percussion instruments, 'tunable' percussion instruments, and 'pitched' percussion instruments.

'Pitched' percussion instruments are instruments sounded by striking (generally) which produce a specific pitch or set of pitches. In this category fall a large number of percussion instruments with more than one resonator: xylophones, marimbas, orchestra bells, the piano and celeste (both of which have keyboards which actuate internal hammers) and the like are chromatic, meaning they have a range of notes and can produce 13 pitches to the octave. They are usually arranged to resemble the piano keyboard for easy operation. There are also wood blocks and cow bells, which represent nearly- or mostly- pitched percussion. They have individual resonators, sometimes ganged together to make a unit, and with enough resonators, can be used to play a melody (like the percolator melody in the Maxwell House Coffee commercials of the 1960's). Other varieties of pitched percussion include the membranophones, which are equipped with tension-adjustments (timtoms, tympani, multiple tomtoms, etc.) They are more loosely defined as pitched as they go down in size and up in pitch.

Tunable percussion are instruments that are struck to play, but which have the ability to change pitch while playing. The king of this class is the pedal-tympani, which can be changed to different pitches by rocking your foot on the pedal. The musical saw qualifies as well, when struck with a leather hammer rather than bowed.

Tuned percussion instruments would be any of the above, once their pitch has been set. It is not a terribly useful term, except when trying to explain to someone why their percussion makes bad sounds.

Of course, one must ask "what hymn" vs. "what classical piece". There are many piano pieces that can be classified as classical that are perhaps even easier than some hymns. But your question is a general one, so I'll be general in my answer. IN GENERAL:

There is absolutely no question that the playing of classical piano pieces is more difficult than the playing of hymns. The typical hymn - taken from a standard hymnal - consists of four "voices" (soprano, alto, tenor, bass), and the hymn's playing usually consists of a succession of chords, sometimes with a bit more motion on the part of the soprano voice (which usually carries the melody).

A casual inspection of a classical piece of more than "beginner" difficulty will reveal a much different structure. With Chopin, for instance, one finds difficult runs, horrendous stretches and fingering. In Bach, one might find a fugue with five different melodies interweaving at the same time.

Hymn-playing is a good exercise in sight-reading for the classical pianist, and a trained classical pianist can play any hymn on sight with ease. The opposite is not true. The experienced hymn-player without classical training will be hard pressed to play any but the most easy classical piece. And there are few classical pieces for piano beyond "beginner" level that can be played on sight, but rather must be practiced and labored over many times before perfection can be reached.

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Thats not really an answerable question, some people have the natural gift, like if you were to ask me if it was hard to play drums, i would say no its very easy, but if you were to ask someone who DOESNT play them, they would probably say its hard.. it could be easier for some people and harder for others..

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Both answers above have more than a little merit. My own experience may add a perspective. I played classical piano for years (at a strong intermediate to advanced level) before I found myself having to play hymns from a standard hymnal. At first, the characteristic rhythms of some of them were foreign and a little tricky. I got to the point where I could play the voices "as notated" reasonably well. But others in the congregation can sit down, and effortlessly and spontaneously "orchestrate" any hymn (improvise) using the "notes" only as a creative guide. That is a skill that is utterly beyond me, short of giving away all of my music scores and devoting serious time and effort to learning some new skills. I'm not about to do that.

With hymns, they are easier to play on the organ than the piano, due to the pedals on the organ.

It depends on the music and how easily it is written. I can play the piano and I personally think that hymns are easier as they mainly have chords.

There are "Tricks" that organists can employ to make the congregation speed up tempo ... one thing that I use when this happens is to add leading and following notes to the chords - hard to explain in words - but hearing the "movement" between the block chord of the hymn, helps the congregation keep to your tempo.

Takes practice ... practice over many years to develop this technique, but once learned, it almost becomes automatic.

A percussion instrument with no pitch is (obviously) a percussion instrument, but with no recognisable note in any scale, producing a beat rather than a note. Examples of these instruments are snare drum, bass drum, tomtom drum etc.

The three basic parts to a xylophone are the bars, the resonators, and the frame. The bars are made of wood (most commonly rosewood or padouk) or synthetic materials. This is the part of the instrument that is actually hit with a mallet to produce sound. The resonators are the tubes underneath each bar. These amplify the vibration of each bar and result in the sound we hear when the instrument is played. The frame is the rest of the instrument that includes the legs and base that the bars and resonators sit on.

Piano benches usually come in 18" and 19" heights, although adjustable piano benches have a range of adjustment from around 18" to 22".

In my opinion, adjustable height piano benches are the best choice because they allow you the most flexibility in height, and they are padded for extra comfort.

Some adjustable benches also have music compartments for storage of sheet music, books and other small items.

The piano is thought to have been invented in 1709 in Italy by Bartolomeo Christofori (1655 - 1732). He called his new instrument 'Gravicembalo col piano e forte' or 'pianoforte' which is Italian for (harpsichord with) soft and loud.

It was a modification of the harpsicord, were you basicly do the same as the piano, you tap the keys to hit the strings and produce sound. The harpsicord was invented in the 1400s.

Yes, the drums are a percussion instrument.

The standard modern piano has 36 black keys and 52 white keys. The same is true for full size keyboards. The piano is the most popular solo instrument in the world.