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    Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating...
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    following decade. In 1959, Fender began marketing the Piano Bass, a cut-down version; the full-size instrument did not appear until after Fender's sale to CBS...
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    instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano,...
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    group, but the piano and harpsichord fall into the first. Hornbostel and Sachs' criterion for determining which sub-group an instrument falls into is that...
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    upright pianos. The instrument was originally used for classical music performances as a substitute for a harpsichord. A honky-tonk piano has a similar tone...
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    A digital piano is a type of electronic keyboard instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to the traditional acoustic piano, both in how...
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    An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal...
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    Fortepiano (redirect from Hammer piano)
    [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori...
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    do not have piano keyboards) are included. Percussion instruments are most commonly divided into two classes: pitched percussion instruments, which produce...
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    The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument. Most modern toy pianos use round metal rods...
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    Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways. Modern pianos usually have three pedals...
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    circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard). Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often...
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    Rhodes piano, though the sound is different. The instrument was invented by Benjamin Miessner, who had worked on various types of electric pianos since...
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    A stage piano is an electronic musical instrument designed for use in live performances on stage or in a studio, as well as for music recording in Jazz...
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    Reproducing Pianos. In America by the end of the decade, the new 'jazz age' and the rise of the fox-trot confirmed the player piano as the instrument of popular...
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  • instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano,...
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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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    The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design. It normally features five octaves of keys...
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    Celesta (redirect from Bell-piano)
    the celesta as an alternative instrument. In the 1930s, Fats Waller sometimes played celesta with his right hand and piano simultaneously with his left...
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  • grand, upright and digital pianos. The Kawai Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company distributes acoustic and digital pianos to over 80 countries. Since...
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    Bartolomeo Cristofori (category Italian musical instrument makers)
    1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano. The available source materials on Cristofori's life include...
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    regardless of their main instrument. By extension the phrase 'jazz piano' can refer to similar techniques on any keyboard instrument. Along with the guitar...
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  • Look up Piano, piano, pianó, or píanó in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A piano is a keyboard music instrument. Piano may also refer to: Piano, Haute-Corse...
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    accordion to feature a piano keyboard was probably the instrument introduced in 1852 by Bouton of Paris. Another source claimed the first piano accordion was introduced...
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  • form of the piano, which emerged in the late 19th century, is a very different instrument from the pianos for which earlier classical piano literature...
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    string tensions. Square pianos were the most popular keyboard instrument of the late 18th century, and the later square grand pianos enjoyed great popularity...
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    instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it...
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    to a music box drum, or by a roll similar to that of a player piano. Some instruments have both a keyboard and a mechanism for automated operation, others...
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    served by permanently dedicating an instrument, such as the tack piano. Other techniques related to prepared piano include the Acoustisizer. Cage frequently...
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  • piano for the first ever Zumpe piano concert in 1768. Because of Bach's fame, the piano soon replaced the harpsichord as the predominant instrument of...
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