Below is a
compilation of interesting information, both funny and
historical, about the piano.
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Piano was first created in the
year 1698 by an Italian named, Bartolomeo Cristofori. This is the first piano
with an escape mechanism for the hammers and is capable of playing softly and
loudly.
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The piano was sort of an
accident because the inventor’s attention was on harpsichords.
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The piano has 12,000 parts
with only 10,000 are moving.
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There is a pressure of approximately
18 tons that is being utilized by the strings of the stretched steel piano.
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For a concert grand, it is
close to 30 tons of pressure.
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For a typical piano, there are
230 strings.
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Most pianos have two to three
pedals.
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The right pedal of th piano is
the sustaining pedal or the damper pedal.
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The piano’s left pedal is
always some type of soft pedal.
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For pianos with three pedals,
it is usually called the sostenuto pedal.
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The middle pedal is the bass
sustaining pedal.
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The piano is known as “the
king of instruments”
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The word, “grand” in the piano
started in 1777.
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According to studies, children
who learn piano tend to do well in school because of the qualities being
attributed to discipline, the eye & hand coordination, social skills and
the interest in learning a new language (which is music).
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The first piano manufactured
in Japan was the Yamaha
brand in 1887.
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The last note of the piano’s
keyboard is C.
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The first note on an 88
standard note keyboard is A.
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The world’s largest piano ever
recorded is the Challen Concert Grand that is 11 feet long an have a total
string tension of over 30 tons.
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The square piano was created
by Zumpe from England in 1760.
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Johann Behrent was the one who
built the first piano in America in Philadelphia in the year 1775 with the name
“Piano Forte”
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The first piano with
reversible keywords was built in 1876 by Mangeot of Paris.
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The word, “Nickelodeon”
is just a general term that is used to describe to various coin operated pianos
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The the piano’s working
section is called the action. There are an estimated of 7500 parts and they are
all playing a role in sending these hammers against the strings whenever the
keys are being struck.
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For a grand piano, it has more
than 35 points of adjustments and for the entire piano, a total of 3,080
adjustments.
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Compared to other instruments
that needed a piano for accompaniment, the piano can play or stand alone
without any assistance from other instruments.
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Abraham “Abe” Lincoln has used
a Chickering Grand while he was at the White House.
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A grand piano has a repetition
lever that makes its action faster than any vertical piano.
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A half step in a pitch drop
can equal to a changeof 3,000 – 5,000 pounds of tension.
There are some more information that you
can find every day. Share your knowledge about pianos.
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