The Piano

The piano is a string instrument played by a variety of octaves by using a keyboard with 88 (sometimes 81) keys. The piano is widely used in classical music for solo performances, and most popular for composing and rehearsal. The piano is a large music instrument, thus making it not portable it is very expensive, but the piano’s versatility and ease of use made it one of the world’s most well known instrument. The way a piano works is if one presses a key, the piano’s keyboard causes a padded hammer to trike a steel string. The hammer rebounds and the string continues to vibrate, with each string having it’s own different frequency, giving us a wide number of different sounds. The harder you press, the louder the sound becomes, and the longer you keep pressing, the longer the duration of the sound. There are three piddles for the piano, each has a different role