Percussion Instruments

An octave on a standard piano keyboard is 6 1/2" wide. There are 7 octaves in a standard piano keyboard, plus 2 extra keys at the bottom (A0 and B0), thus the keyboard measures 7 x 6.5 + (6.5 * 2 / 7 keys per octave) = 47.357" or 3'1111/32" - almost 4 feet wide.

Snare drum

The website in the sources and related links(below) has some music sheets from Mario.

Some percussion instruments that are not standard drum sets or drum kits are:

bell

chime bar

cow bell

cymbal

pian

siren

sleigh bells

timbal

timpani

triangle

whip

whistle

wood block

xylophone

Not traditionally, but there are a few pieces that call for one. Usually something with Irish or Celtic themes.

Same way you get to Carnigie Hall; PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. Most piano virtuosi begin at a very young age. They will often have parents with keyboarding skills themselves who can teach the young music student. Over years of practice and practical lessons advancing the skills of the student (often through private study with a college-level professor or a professional keyboardist), the student can earn the title of virtuoso. However, at this point I must recognize that virtuosi are traditionally recognized as those with an immense amount of natural talent. This talent DOES need to be nurtured and guided to come to fruition, but it is often unlikely that someone will purely be taught how to be a virtuoso. This, by default, makes "becoming a virtuoso" a practical impossibility; even though it CAN be done.

A piano does not have a fixed number of strings, but varies by the model and manufacturer. As a rule, a piano can have between about 216 and 250 strings, with the most being in the concert grand pianos. The multiple strings per note improve the tonal quality of the notes.

it's a symbol, part of a drum kit and makes a clang-like sound when stuck with a drumstick.. it's a thin, mostly flat piece of metal that is suspended in the air on a pole...surely you've heard one, unless you don't listen to music at all

On the harpsichord the strings are plucked, while on the clavichord they are striked. Because of this, the harpsichord is unable to make sounds louder or softer, though they're usually much louder than the clavichords'. To this also helps the fact that harpsichords have a air chamber below the strings, which reverbates, amplifying the sound.

On some harpsichords there is another manual (keyboard), positioned above the normal one, with another set of strings, which produces a slightly different sound from the lower manual. When combined they produce a richer sound.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed this piece for orchestra (for his operate "Tale of the Tsar Sultan) and the famous pianist Sergei Rachmaninov arranged a version for piano. (There is also a jazzed-up version of this called "Bumble Boogie" by Jack Fina.

Grand Pianos weigh between can weigh up to 1200lbs. Baby Grands are between 500lbs and 800lbs. Smaller upright pianos generally weigh between 300lbs and 400lbs, while larger uprights generally run between 600lbs and 800lbs.

Piano is from the Percussion Family.

Other instruments in that family are:oCelesta

oHarp

oTimpani

oSnare

oSymbols

oGlockenspiel

The Percussion Family is more international than any other section in the orchestra. Just look at the variety of instruments!

With most instruments in the Percussion Family people don't know who invented them or when. In ancient drawings it shows a timpani or African drums being played. But still, no one really knows.

If allowed to thoroughly dry out, the pulp in the gourd evaporates, leaving only the hard, dried seeds inside. When shaken, such a gourd rattles - the basis of the percussion instrument called the "maraca".

There were five who stand out as almost strictly pianistic composers, and they were Scott Joplin, Fryderyk Chopin, Henry Cowell, R. Nethanial Dett, and Enrique Granados.

There were many other pianists who turned out as composers and scored their piano music as a primarily featured instrument (and then tagged in a few other 'whistle-blowers' to add unnecessary debauchery), such as the two Sergeis (S. Prokofiev and S. Rachmaninoff), Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Claude Debussy, Edward Macdowell, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Norman Dello-Joio, Christoph P.E. Bach (one of the Johann offspring), Robert Schumann, Antonio Scarlatti, and Bela Bartok to name a few.

There are, however, many composers who were skilled at writing for several different instrumental mediums, but also included impressively written masterworks for piano as either a subsidiary instrument (accompaniment) or as a soloist in their portfolios. Composers in this category include Paul Hindemith, Pytr I. Tchaikovsky, Olivier Messiaen, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel, Felix Mendelssohn, Samuel Barber, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gabriel Faure, George Fredric Handel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Darius Milhaud, Wolfgang Amadeus (Wolfie) Mozart, Anton Rubenstein, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copeland, Camille Saint-Saens, Alexander Scriabin, the three "A" 12-toners ("A"nton Webern, "A"rnold Schoernberg, and "A"lban Berg), Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Ives, Manuel de Falla, Leonard Bernstein, Alexander Glazunov, and George Gershwin.

Aside from these piano promoters, there emerged a set of composers who appeared to despise the instrument and appeared to 'cringe' at the thought of wasting time writing for nothing more than an accompaniment figure. These include Giaccomo Puccini, any of the Strauss boys (Johann Jr. and Sr., and Richard), Gioachino Rossini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppi Verdi, Benjamin Britten, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler, Leon Minkus, George Bizet, Gustav Holst, Richard Rogers, Hector Berlioz, Leo Delibes, Anton Bruckner, and Richard Wagner.

All of these composers composed massive amounts of music that include piano in them as either character, subsidiary, solo, featured, or accompanying figures. Nearly all of them have dabbled in vocal and/or symphonic writing, and all have produced outstanding and pioneering works for the instrument under discussion.

I hope this helps.

Compared to what?

Most of them were of average quality intended for home use. No obvious problems but just adequate musical instruments. If you're buying for casual use or kids' lessons it will probably be fine but you may want to have a piano technician look at it to make sure it doesn't have any problems severe enough to make it unusable for your purposes.

They are considered Bass because they hold the band or orchestra together.

No, except they are both portable. the Viola is the tenor violin, geared down from the Soprano range of the traditional fiddle. The Clavichord is a keyboard instrument that is portable, and sounds something like a tinny steel guitar. a noble attempt was made to revive the Clavichord , and electrify it, also- in about l963 by one of the big German musical instrument houses. After all the Bass guitar came up to date, right. unfortunately the Clavichord in modern dress did not catch on, let along twangl. They were built and indeed imported.

None, unless the composer has included it in the piece being performed. The composer of classical works specifies which and how many of each type of instrument are used for his/her piece. When the piano is called out in the score, usually one piano is used.

If you look at the piano keys you will notice there is a pattern in the way the black notes interleave the white notes. This pattern is repeated several times along the keyboard. If you select any key (black or white) and then look for the same key in the next repeat of the pattern to the right, that is one octave higher. Another way is, for a white note, call that "1", then counting white notes as you go to the right, one octave higher is note 8. Starting with any black note called "1", then counting black notes only, one octave higher is note 6. There are fewer black notes than white ones. One octave higher is double the sound frequency.

Pianola and Harpsichord.

Only the keyboard of an organ resembles that of a piano.

Many mallet percussion instruments, like the bells, xylo, etc. are pitched. The timp is also pitched, and you have to tune that one.

The piano is also a pitched percussion instrument. Many people think that the piano is not a percussion instrument, and that it is a string instrument. This is wrong. The piano uses a type of mallet that hits the pitched piano strings making it a percussion instrument. The harpsichord is like a piano, but uses plucking to strike the strings, making it a string instrument. Actually tom toms are tuned to the preference of the artist, however they are not required to be played at a certain pitch.

Whistle

Wagner Tuba (Brass)

Washboard (Percussion)

Whip (Percussion)

Wind Chimes (Percussion)

Washtub bass (Strings)

Washint (Ethiopian flute) (Woodwind)

Welsh pipes (Woodwind)

Willow flute (Woodwind)

A full-sized concert grand piano is nine feet long, and costs about $40,000.