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271 relations: A440 (pitch standard), Abdallah Chahine, Acoustic impedance, Action (music), Action (piano), Alcoa, Aliquot stringing, Alpheus Babcock, Aluminum piano plate, Americus Backers, Anton Walter, Audio power amplifier, Augsburg, Autodidacticism, Étude Op. 25, No. 12 (Chopin), Bachelor's degree, Bandleader, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Bösendorfer, Beat (acoustics), Bebop, Beech, Ben Folds, Bill Evans, Billy Joel, Birmingham, Blanchet (harpsichord makers), Block chord, Blues, Bohemian Rhapsody, Boogie-woogie, Boston, Bridge (instrument), Bud Powell, C (musical note), C. Bechstein, C. F. Theodore Steinway, Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer, Cast iron, CD-ROM, Charles-Louis Hanon, Chickering & Sons, Christian Ernst Friederici, Chromatic scale, Clara Schumann, Classical music, Clavichord, Clavinova, Clutch, Community centre, ... Expand index (221 more) »
- 17th-century inventions
- C instruments
- Chordophones
- European percussion instruments
- Italian musical instruments
- Orchestral instruments
- Rhythm section
A440 (pitch standard)
A440 (also known as Stuttgart pitch) is the musical pitch corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz, which serves as a tuning standard for the musical note of A above middle C, or A4 in scientific pitch notation.
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Abdallah Chahine
Abdallah Chahine (عبد الله شاهين; 1894–1975) was a Lebanese pianist and tuner-technician who devised an "Oriental piano" capable of playing quarter tones.
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Acoustic impedance
Acoustic impedance and specific acoustic impedance are measures of the opposition that a system presents to the acoustic flow resulting from an acoustic pressure applied to the system.
See Piano and Acoustic impedance
Action (music)
The action of a string instrument that is plucked, strummed, or bowed by hand is the distance between the fingerboard and the string.
Action (piano)
The piano action mechanism (also known as the key action mechanismPressing, Jeffrey Lynn, PhD (1946–2002), (1992), p. 124. or simply the action) of a piano or other musical keyboard is the mechanical assembly which translates the depression of the keys into rapid motion of a hammer, which creates sound by striking the strings.
Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation.
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Aliquot stringing
Aliquot stringing is the use of extra, un-struck strings in a piano for the purpose of enriching the tone. Piano and Aliquot stringing are keyboard instruments and string instruments.
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Alpheus Babcock
Alpheus Babcock (September 11, 1785 – April 3, 1842) was a piano and musical instrument maker in Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the early 19th century.
Aluminum piano plate
A piano with an aluminum piano plate, called the Alumatone plate, was announced in 1945 by Winter and Company, piano manufacturers, and Alcoa, a manufacturer of aluminum and aluminum products.
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Americus Backers
Americus Backers (died 1778), sometimes described as the father of the English grand pianoforte style, brought the hammer striking action for keyboard instruments from his master Gottfried Silbermann's workshop in Freiburg to England in the mid-18th century.
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Anton Walter
Gabriel Anton Walter (5 February 1752 – 11 April 1826) was a builder of pianos.
Audio power amplifier
An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones.
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Augsburg
Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.
Autodidacticism
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
Étude Op. 25, No. 12 (Chopin)
Étude Op.
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Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).
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Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet.
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
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Bösendorfer
Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, since 2008, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation.
Beat (acoustics)
In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies.
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States.
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Beech
Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.
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Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Bill Evans
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio.
Billy Joel
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Blanchet (harpsichord makers)
The Blanchet family were an extended family of French harpsichord-makers from the late-17th century to the mid-19th century, by which time they had become piano makers.
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Block chord
A block chord is a chord or voicing built directly below the melody either on the strong beats or to create a four-part harmonized melody line in "locked-hands" rhythmic unison with the melody, as opposed to broken chords.
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera (1975).
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Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.
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Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
C (musical note)
C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.
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C. Bechstein
C.
C. F. Theodore Steinway
Christian Friedrich Theodor Steinweg, anglicized name C.F. Theodore Steinway (November 6, 1825 – March 26, 1889), was a piano maker.
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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.
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Charles-Louis Hanon
Charles-Louis Hanon (2 July 181919 March 1900) was a French piano pedagogue and composer.
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Chickering & Sons
Chickering & Sons was an American piano manufacturer located in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Christian Ernst Friederici
Christian Ernst Friederici (7 March 1709 – 4 May 1780) was a German builder of keyboard instruments.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone.
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
Clavichord
The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Piano and clavichord are keyboard instruments and string instruments.
Clavinova
The Clavinova is a long-running line of digital pianos created by the Yamaha Corporation.
Clutch
A clutch is a mechanical device that allows the output shaft to be disconnected from the rotating input shaft.
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Community centre
A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.
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Comping (jazz)
In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines. Piano and comping (jazz) are rhythm section.
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
Coupling (physics)
In physics, two objects are said to be coupled when they are interacting with each other.
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Cross-stringing
Cross-stringing (sometimes called overstringing) is a method of arranging piano strings inside the case of a piano so that the strings are placed in a vertically overlapping slanted arrangement, with two heights of bridges on the soundboard instead of just one.
Cypress
Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs from the Cupressus genus of the Cupressaceae family, typically found in warm-temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Europe, and North America.
Damping (music)
Damping is a technique in music for altering the sound of a musical instrument by reducing oscillations or vibrations.
Digital piano
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 it feels to play and in the sound it produces.
Disklavier
Disklavier is a brand of reproducing pianos manufactured by Yamaha Corporation.
Doctor of Musical Arts
The doctor of musical arts (DMA) is a doctoral academic degree in music.
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Dorothy Taubman
Dorothy Taubman (August 16, 1917 – April 3, 2013) was an American music teacher, lecturer, and founder of the Taubman Institute of Piano.
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
DuPont
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
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Dynamics (music)
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.
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Ebony
Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.
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Edna Golandsky
Edna Golandsky is a classical music pianist, lecturer and pedagogue of renown.
Effects unit
An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. Piano and electric guitar are rhythm section.
Electric piano
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 strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).
Electronic piano
An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano (and sometimes a harpsichord or an organ) using analog circuitry.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.
Emánuel Moór
Emánuel Moór (19 February 1863 – 20 October 1931) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.
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Envelope (music)
In sound and music, an envelope describes how a sound changes over time.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was known as Fanny Hensel after her marriage.
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Fazioli
Fazioli Pianoforti, translated as Fazioli Pianos, produces grand and concert pianos from their factory in Sacile, Italy.
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany
Ferdinando de' Medici (9 August 1663 – 31 October 1713) was the eldest son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans.
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Film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.
First Viennese School
The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century to early-19th-century Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Fortepiano
A fortepiano, sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. Piano and fortepiano are Italian musical instruments, orchestral instruments and string instruments.
Francesco Scipione Maffei
Francesco Scipione Maffei (1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.
Fred Karpoff
Fred Karpoff (born January 28, 1963) is an American pianist and music educator, renowned for developing both the 3-D Piano Method of piano playing and teaching and the Entrada Piano Technique.
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.
Frederick William Collard
Frederick William Collard (baptised 1772, died 1860) was a British piano manufacturer.
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Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
Friedrich Hoffmann
Friedrich Hoffmann or Hofmann (19 February 1660 – 12 November 1742) was a German physician and chemist.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.
Giraffe piano
The giraffe piano is a type of an upright piano that has a "long-necked" appearance due to a narrow, but tall, upright case, essentially a grand piano set up vertically.
Goldberg Variations
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.
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Gottfried Silbermann
Gottfried Silbermann (January 14, 1683 – August 4, 1753) was a German builder of keyboard instruments.
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Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold
Guillaume-Lebrecht Petzold (2 July 1794 –) was a piano maker in Paris in the early 19th century.
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Hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Piano and Hammond organ are rhythm section.
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.
Harmonic
In physics, acoustics, and telecommunications, a harmonic is a sinusoidal wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the fundamental frequency of a periodic signal. Piano and harmonic are string instruments.
Harpsichord
A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Piano and harpsichord are c instruments, keyboard instruments and string instruments.
Headphones
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.
Henri Herz
Henri Herz (6 January 1803 – 5 January 1888) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile.
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived.
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Honky-tonk
A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, honky tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.
Hornbeam
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus Carpinus in the family Betulaceae.
House of Medici
The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.
Ignaz Pleyel
Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period.
Imperial Bösendorfer
The Bösendorfer Model 290 Imperial, or Imperial Bösendorfer (also colloquially known as the 290) is the largest model and flagship piano manufactured by Bösendorfer, at around long, wide, and weighing.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Inharmonicity
In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
Input/output
In computing, input/output (I/O, i/o, or informally io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, such as another computer system, peripherals, or a human operator.
Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.
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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter.
Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.
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Jankó keyboard
The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Jazz piano
Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz.
Jazz-funk
Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, and analog synthesizers.
Jean-Henri Pape
Jean-Henri Pape, born as Johann Heinrich Pape and also known as Henry Pape (1 July 1789 – 2 February 1875), was a French maker of pianos and harps in the early 19th century.
Jean-Louis Boisselot
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Boisselot (18 August 1782 – 21 May 1847) was the founder of the piano company Boisselot & Fils.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.
Johann Andreas Stein
Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 in Heidelsheim – 29 February 1792 in Augsburg) was an outstanding German maker of keyboard instruments, a central figure in the history of the piano.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
Johannes Zumpe
Johannes (Johann Christoph) Zumpe (pronounced zumpy; 14 June 1726 in Fürth, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, modern Germany – buried 5 December 1790 in London, UK) was a leading maker of early English square pianos, a form of rectangular piano with a compass of about five octaves.
John Broadwood
John Broadwood (6 October 1732 – 17 July 1812) was the Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons.
John Broadwood & Sons
John Broadwood & Sons is an English piano manufacturer, founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773 by John Broadwood.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of acoustics.
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Julius Blüthner
Julius Ferdinand Blüthner (11 March 1824 - 13 April 1910) was a German piano maker and founder of the Blüthner piano factory.
Just intonation
In music, just intonation or pure intonation is the tuning of musical intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies.
Kawai Musical Instruments
is a musical instrument manufacturing company headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 194411 March 2016) was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer.
Keyboard amplifier
A keyboard amplifier is a powered electronic amplifier and loudspeaker in a wooden speaker cabinet used for the amplification of electronic keyboard instruments. Piano and keyboard amplifier are keyboard instruments.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. Piano and keyboard instrument are keyboard instruments.
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Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka (born 4 December 1976) is a German-Japanese composer, pianist, and former Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of classical pianists
This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianists who play (or played) classical music on the piano.
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List of films about pianists
The following is a list of films about pianists or in which pianists play a significant role.
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List of piano brand names
This article is a list of piano brand names from all over the world.
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List of piano composers
This is a list of piano composers.
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List of piano manufacturers
This is a partial list of piano manufacturers.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter.
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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LZ 129 Hindenburg
LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ''Hindenburg'' class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.
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Mahāgīta
Mahāgīta (မဟာဂီတ; from Mahāgīta), also rendered into Burmese as Thachingyi (သီချင်းကြီး), is the complete body or corpus of Burmese classical songs.
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
Metal casting
In metalworking and jewelry making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is delivered into a mold (usually by a crucible) that contains a negative impression (i.e., a three-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
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MIDI controller
A MIDI controller is any hardware or software that generates and transmits Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data to MIDI-enabled devices, typically to trigger sounds and control parameters of an electronic music performance.
Minipiano
The minipiano is a very small upright piano patented by the Brasted brothers in 1934 under the name of their company Eavestaff Ltd.
Modernism
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
Music appreciation
Music appreciation is a division of musicology that is designed to teach students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes involved in music composition.
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Music education
Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors.
Music technology
Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Piano and musical keyboard are keyboard instruments.
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Musical notation
Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.
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Musical temperament
In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
Nannette Streicher
Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a German piano maker, composer, music educator, writer and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.
Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. Piano and organ (music) are keyboard instruments and orchestral instruments.
Oscillation
Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.
Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.
Otto Ortmann
Otto Rudolph Ortmann (1889-1979) was an American pianist, music researcher and educator, and author of the groundbreaking Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique.
Overtone
An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.
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Pascal Taskin
Pascal-Joseph Taskin (27 July 1723 – 9 February 1793) was a Holy Roman Empire-born French harpsichord and piano maker.
Patch cable
A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.
Pedal keyboard
A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. Piano and pedal keyboard are keyboard instruments.
Pedal piano
The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the organ. Piano and pedal piano are keyboard instruments.
Pedal point
In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts.
Perfect fifth
In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.
Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.
Physical modelling synthesis
Physical modelling synthesis refers to sound synthesis methods in which the waveform of the sound to be generated is computed using a mathematical model, a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound, usually a musical instrument.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Piano and piano are 17th-century inventions, c instruments, chordophones, European percussion instruments, Italian inventions, Italian musical instruments, keyboard instruments, orchestral instruments, rhythm section and string instruments.
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Piano concerto
A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble.
Piano history and musical performance
The modern 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 was originally composed.
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Piano key frequencies
This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A4), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440).
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Piano pedals
Piano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that change the instrument's sound in various ways.
Piano roll
A piano roll is a music storage medium used to operate a player piano, piano player or reproducing piano.
Piano sonata
A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano.
Piano stool
A piano stool, also referred to as a piano bench or piano chair (depending on style) is a seat especially designed for use at the piano, which can provide more playing comfort than a normal chair.
Piano tuning
Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune.
Piano wire
Piano wire, or "music wire", is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano strings but also in other applications as springs.
Pianoteq
Pianoteq is a software synthesizer that features real-time MIDI-control of digital physically modeled pianos and related instruments, including electric piano, harp, harpsichord, fortepiano, and various metallophones.
Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Piano and pipe organ are c instruments, keyboard instruments and orchestral instruments.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
Player piano
A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls.
Playing by ear
Playing or learning by ear is the ability of a performing musician to reproduce a piece of music they have heard, without having seen it notated in any form of sheet music.
Pleyel et Cie
Pleyel et Cie. ("Pleyel and Company") is a French piano manufacturing firm founded by the composer Ignace Pleyel in 1807.
Plywood
Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.
Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, and has numerous applications because it is chemically inert.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
Prepared piano
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings.
Pseudo-octave
A pseudo-octave, pseudooctave,"Interview with Max Mathews", p.21.
Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
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Ragtime
Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.
Reduction (music)
In music, a reduction is an arrangement or transcription of an existing score or composition in which complexity is lessened to make analysis, performance, or practice easier or clearer; the number of parts may be reduced or rhythm may be simplified, such as through the use of block chords.
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Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
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Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s.
Rick Wakeman
Richard Christopher Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist and composer best known as a member of the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, and for his prolific solo career.
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era.
Robert Wornum
Robert Wornum (1780–1852) was a piano maker working in London during the first half of the 19th century.
Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Romantic music
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
Royal Swedish Academy of Music
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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Sampling (signal processing)
In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.
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Sandayar Chit Swe
Sandayar Chit Swe (စန္ဒရားချစ်ဆွေ; 1935–2005) was a Burmese singer-songwriter and pianist.
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Sandayar Hla Htut
Sandayar Hla Htut (စန္ဒရားလှထွတ်; 1936–2000) was a Burmese musician, composer, pianist, singer and writer.
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Sébastien Érard
Sébastien Érard (born Sebastian Erhard, 5 April 1752 – 5 August 1831) was a French instrument maker of German origin who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano.
Schoenhut Piano Company
The Schoenhut Piano Company is an American manufacturer of toy pianos, dolls, and other wooden toys.
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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist.
Sharp (music)
In music, in English sharp – eqv.
Silent piano
A silent piano is an acoustic piano where there is an option to silence the strings by stopping the hammers from striking them.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (rarely), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry.
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Soft pedal
The soft pedal or, is one pedal on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals.
Songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both.
Sotheby's
Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.
Sound board (music)
A soundboard (occasionally called a sounding board) is the surface of a string instrument that the strings vibrate against, usually via some sort of bridge.
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Sound module
A sound module is an electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface such as a piano-style musical keyboard.
Spinet
A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.
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Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.
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Square piano
The square piano is a type of piano that has horizontal strings arranged diagonally across the rectangular case above the hammers and with the keyboard set in the long side, with the sounding board above a cavity in the short side. Piano and square piano are keyboard instruments.
Steel casting
Steel casting is a specialized form of casting involving various types of steel cast to either final/net or near-net shape.
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).
Stretched tuning
Stretched tuning is a detail of musical tuning, applied to wire-stringed musical instruments, older, non-digital electric pianos (such as the Fender Rhodes piano and Wurlitzer electric piano), and some sample-based synthesizers based on these instruments, to accommodate the natural inharmonicity of their vibrating elements.
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String (music)
In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Piano and string (music) are string instruments.
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Piano and string instrument are rhythm section and string instruments.
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Stuart & Sons
Stuart & Sons is an Australian manufacturer of handcrafted grand pianos.
Superposition principle
The superposition principle, also known as superposition property, states that, for all linear systems, the net response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually.
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Sustain pedal
A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano.
Sympathetic resonance
Sympathetic resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness.
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Sympathetic string
Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments. Piano and Sympathetic string are chordophones.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Piano and synthesizer are keyboard instruments and rhythm section.
Tension (physics)
Tension is the pulling or stretching force transmitted axially along an object such as a string, rope, chain, rod, truss member, or other object, so as to stretch or pull apart the object.
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Tilia americana
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.
Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Toy piano
The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano-like musical instrument. Piano and toy piano are keyboard instruments.
Transposing piano
A transposing piano is a special piano with a mechanism (operated by a pedal or lever) that changes the keyboard position relative to the action (see Development of the modern piano for details).
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USB flash drive
A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive elsewhere) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.
Velocity
Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Piano and violin are c instruments and Italian inventions.
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Wadia Sabra
Wadia (Wadih) Sabra (وديع صبرا.; 23 February 1876 – 11 April 1952) was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais.
Wavelength
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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Yamaha Corporation
is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.
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See also
17th-century inventions
- Barometer
- Corkscrew
- Piano
- Reflecting telescope
- Slide rule
- Spatula Mundani
- Swedish torch
- Thermostat
- Vacuum pump
C instruments
- Bass flute
- Bass trumpet
- C melody saxophone
- C soprano saxophone
- Celesta
- Cello
- Contrabass bugle
- Cornettino
- Double bass
- Guitar
- Harpsichord
- Marimba
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Vibraphone
- Viola
- Violin
- Western concert flute
Chordophones
- Alapini vina and eka-tantri vina
- Anandalahari
- Citole
- Cythara
- Khomys
- Kinnari vina
- List of Caribbean chordophones
- Misr veena
- Piano
- Pinaka vina
- Piwancha
- Quintola
- Rudra veena
- Sarangi
- String instruments
- Stringed music in China
- Sympathetic string
- Takumbo
- Thanjavur Veenai
- Uhadi musical bow
- Veena
- Violinzither
- Zithers
- Đàn brố
European percussion instruments
- Anvil
- Batih
- Bell
- Bodhrán
- Bones (instrument)
- Bubon
- Castanets
- Clash cymbals
- Cochilia
- Conocchie
- Crotalum
- Dance Chimes
- Galician tambourine
- Geophone (musical instrument)
- Goblet drum
- Gubal (instrument)
- Handbell
- Monkey stick
- Ocean drum
- Parsifal bell
- Piano
- Pipe and tabor
- Pogo cello
- Putipù
- Ratchet (instrument)
- Resheto
- Semantron
- Tambori
- Tambourine de Bearn
- Taraban
- Tombak
- Treshchotka
- Triccaballacca
- Txalaparta
- Wind chime
- Zatula
Italian musical instruments
- Baghèt
- Batta-Piatigorsky Stradivarius
- Castanets
- Ceterone
- Chitarra battente
- Chiterra sarda
- Ciaramedda
- Cimbasso
- Conocchie
- Fortepiano
- Hurdy-gurdy
- Keyboard glockenspiel
- Launeddas
- Lyre
- Müsa
- Mandolin
- Ocarina
- Organetto
- Piano
- Piffero
- Piva (bagpipe)
- Pommer
- Putipù
- Rebec
- Surdelina
- Triccaballacca
- Tumbarinu
- Zampogna
- Zuffolo
Orchestral instruments
- Alto trombone
- Bass trombone
- Bassoon
- Celesta
- Cimbasso
- Clarinet
- Colascione
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Contrabass trombone
- Contrabassoon
- Cor anglais
- Fortepiano
- French horn
- Guitar
- Harp
- Lute
- Mandolin
- Natural horn
- Natural trumpet
- Oboe
- Organ (music)
- Pedal harp
- Piano
- Pipe organ
- Saxophone
- Serpent (instrument)
- String section
- Theorbo
- Timpani
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Western concert flute
Rhythm section
- Accompaniment
- Acoustic guitar
- Alternate bass
- Backline (stage)
- Bass guitar
- Bassline
- Bateria
- Comping (jazz)
- Contrabass guitar
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Electric sitar
- Electronic drum
- Guitar
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Jazz bass
- Jazz chord
- Nashville Number System
- Offstage musicians and singers in popular music
- Oom-pah
- Open chord
- Piano
- Rhythm section
- Steel-string acoustic guitar
- String instrument
- Synthesizer
- Tambourine
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