Piano is a kind of music instrument that is played with two hands or ten fingers. Piano is a string instrument played with keyboard that makes hammer strike the tuned strings. Piano is a very famous music instrument in the world. There are a lot of people that can play piano.
The improvement of the technology has caused piano improve to be a digital piano. There is also a kind of music instrument called electronic keyboard. It is also the improvement from piano. Electronic keyboard is usually used for accompanying the singer or music player. Even though the technology has improved, we still have to learn the original piano.
Piano could represent an orchestra for some songs. It has 7 octaves with 88 keys with 52 white keys and 36 black keys in it. There isn’t any kind of instrument that could play more than that. A common music instruments usually can play only 3-4 octaves. Piano can play more than one note in a time, means that it can play chord.
Piano also has three pedals. The pedals are usually played with our feet. The pedals will move the mechanic at the interior part of piano. The right pedal (sustain) is used to make the sound become longer. The centre pedal (sostuneto) is to make the sound become dimmed. The left pedal (una corda or damper) is to make the sound become soft. The sostuneto and una corda pedals are usually used to play the pianississimo sound (The mark: ppp).
In fact, the old piano (fortepiano) does not have these three pedals. These pedals are created in the modern piano. They were used in the romantic period. But these pedals are useful, these pedals make music become more smoothly.
Piano was created in the end of 17th century. It was made from the harpsichord instrument idea. It needed a good technology and creativity to make it. It became famous in the classical music period.
There are two kinds of piano, the upright or the grand. The upright piano is usually used at our home. Then the grand piano is usually used in the concert. The grand piano is better than the upright piano, but it’s very big and expensive. You should have prepared a big space in order to buy the grand piano.
Piano could be played for classical music, jazz music, pop music or any other kinds of music. Piano could be played for solo performances or accompaniment.
It is nice to listen to the piano sound. Piano could make from the smallest sound until the biggest sound. Piano also can make a lot of technique. The weakness of piano is that piano could not play a technical named tremolo like other kinds of music instruments, such as guitar, lute, strings instruments, etc.
Many people said that playing piano could train your brain. Because you must play it with ten fingers with different way each hand. Then also your feet must step on the pedals sometimes. You should be able to read two staffs in the same time, and it’s very challenging for the first time.
Piano's tone also can run due to the temperature change. It has to be tuned. Usually, we can ask for the piano tuning specialist to tune the piano.
That’s all about piano that I can tell you. I hope this article is useful for pianists, musician, or all the people. Sorry if I've got some wrong information, I tried my best to write what I know. Thank you.
By : Eric Loka
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