The piano is a very fertile musical instrument. Great composers wrote their works especially for him. Depending on how hard and how long you press the keys, you can get a huge range of sound tones.
History of appearance
The piano belongs to string-keyboard musical instruments, being a kind of piano. In response to the musician's keystrokes, the piano can produce both loud “forte” and quiet “piano” sounds. The sound is created by striking the string with a hammer. In a piano, the strings, soundboard and mechanical part are arranged vertically, which allows the instrument to take up less space and is the main difference from a grand piano.
In December 1800, the American J. Hawkins invented the first piano. But it wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that the piano began to look as it does today.
The homeland of the piano is Italy. Bartolomeo Cristofori, being the curator of the collection of musical instruments at the Duke Cosimo de 'Medici, in his free time loved to design new instruments. In 1711 he created an instrument called "piano" or "piano". The ability of a new instrument to sound loud and quiet, to make crescendos and diminuendos, to change dynamics gradually or suddenly changed a lot in the character of the musical culture of Western civilization.
In his youth, Mozart preferred the clavichin. But as soon as the photrepiano appeared, he began to perform his works on it, recognizing the advantages of the instrument.
How many keys does a piano have
The piano has 88 keys, 52 of which are white and 36 are black. The keys of the instrument line up seven full and two not full octaves. The controctave, major, minor, first, second, third and fourth octaves each contain seven fundamental tones (white keys) and five semitones (black keys). The subcontract octave consists of only three keys: two white and one black. The first key of the octave subcontour is the "A" note. The fifth octave consists of one white key - the C note.
Which tool to choose
Now people are divided into those who are against electronic pianos, synthesizers and those who replaced acoustic instruments with them. Of course, the advantage of "electronics" is that such instruments take up less space than acoustic ones. In addition, they do not require tuning, you can play them with headphones, without disturbing others. Progress has reached the point that even the sound of an electronic instrument is fully consistent with the sounds of a live piano, grand piano.
In 1984, an interesting experiment was carried out: a group of musicians and people who were not professionally connected with music was assembled. They were given to listen to the melodies played on the grand piano and the electronic piano. The instruments themselves were not visible, and the sound was fed through the speakers. As a result, most listeners were unable to accurately distinguish between electronic and real instruments.
In defense of the piano, I would like to say that it is a "living" instrument. When you play it, you can hear how the hammers go inside. The instrument seems to be breathing. The synthesizer produces the correct sounds, but they do not have an individual character, you cannot hear the richness of the timbres of a real instrument. When choosing, you need to decide which of the criteria will be decisive in buying a tool. If the main criterion is compactness, convenience, then the choice will be in favor of an electronic piano or synthesizer. If the main thing is the richness of the sound, then buying a piano is better. The choice is yours which tool to buy. Try both. And then hear your instrument.
