Piano

A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys—with the exception of the Bosendörfer and Stuart & Sons pianos—and tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called a pianist.

thumb|Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano thumb|Motion capture of two pianists' fingers playing the same piece (slow motion, no sound). thumb|'Humoresque (song)|Humoresque' by [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz, blues, and popular music, including rock and roll. Most pianists can, to an extent, easily play other keyboard instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta, and the organ.

piano that can play prerecorded works on perforated piano rolls

thumb|right|250px|Fortepiano by Paul McNulty (piano maker)|Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, 1805

musical instrument

grand pianoforte

particular kind of accompaniment figure in music

composition for piano and two instruments, usually a violin and a cello

piano with the strings arranged in a vertical plane

musical instrument which uses samples and synthesisers to replicate the sound of an acoustic piano and other instruments

term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz

jazz piano style

music term; arrangement or transcription of an existing score or composition in which complexity is lessened to make analysis, performance, or practice easier or clearer

type of piano duet involving two players playing the same piano simultaneously

accordion with right-hand piano-style keyboard

chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments

musical composition for 5 performers including a piano; genre of art music played by such groups

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musical instrument

type of piano that includes an organ-style pedalboard

music storage medium used to operate a player piano, piano player, or reproducing piano

foot-operated levers at the base of a piano (typically three) that change the instrument's sound in various ways

process of tuning a piano

musical instrument

pedal on a piano that causes the hammer to strike only one string (instead of two or three)

piano mechanism

material for piano strings

type of acoustic piano

thumb|A luthéal The luthéal is a kind of hybrid piano which extended the "register" possibilities of a piano by producing cimbalom-like sounds in some registers, exploiting harmonics of the strings when pulling other register-stops, and also some registers making other objects, which were lowered just above the strings, resound. The instrument became obsolete partly because most of its mechanics were too sensitive, needing constant adjustment. The only pieces in the general repertoire to feature the luthéal are ''L'enfant et les sortilèges (1920–25) and Tzigane'' (1924), by Maurice Ravel.

Grand piano made by Steinway

type of keyboard instrument

thumb|250px|Yamaha Disklavier Pro S6 Grand Piano Disklavier is a brand of reproducing pianos manufactured by Yamaha Corporation. The first Disklavier was introduced in the United States in 1987.

piano pedal, typically the rightmost of 2 or 3 pedals, which moves all the dampers away from the strings, allowing them to vibrate freely, so that notes played continue to sound until the vibration naturally dies or the pedal is released

thumb|Orphica by Joseph Dohnal (Kunsthistorisches Museum)

thumb|A drawing of a piano with a chiroplast installed on it, from French patent documents A chiroplast is an instrument to guide the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, invented and patented by Johann Bernhard Logier in 1814. The instrument was a device that placed the wrist, thumb and fingers of a hand above five consecutive white keys of a keyboard, to overcome the difficulty of retaining their proper position by beginners.

97 key grand piano

piano placed in a public area

the study of piano sounds and the design elements which are involved

study of the teaching of piano playing

early version of the upright piano

stool used to play the piano