Keyboard instrument
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Piano is the general name given to a musical instrument classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of classification used.
Role
The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, film, television, and most other complex western musical genres. A large number of composers are proficient pianists—and because the piano keyboard offers an easy means of complex melodic and harmonic interplay—the piano is often used as a tool for composition.
Pianos were, and still are, popular instruments for private household ownership. Hence, pianos have gained a place in the popular consciousness, and are sometimes referred to by nicknames including: "the ivories", "the joanna", "the eighty-eight", "the black(s) and white(s)", and "the little joe(s)". Playing the piano is sometimes referred to as "tickling the ivories".
See also
- General
- Jazz piano
- Street piano
- Musica Obscura
- Piano transcription
- Piano trio
- Prepared piano
- String piano
- Piano extended technique
- Technical
- Piano action
- Agraffe
- Aliquot stringing
- Cross-stringing
- Innovations in the piano
- Piano acoustics
- Piano key frequencies (in equal temperament)
- Piano pedals
- Piano tuning
- Soft pedal
- Sounding board
- Sustain pedal
- Related lists
- List of films about pianists
- List of piano makers
- List of piano brand names
- List of classical pianists (recorded)
- Related instruments
- Hammered dulcimer
- Harp
- Clavichord
- Harpsichord
- Organ and Pipe organ
- Electric piano
- Electronic piano
- Harmonichord
- Keyboard instruments
- Electronic keyboard
- Musical keyboard
- Keytar