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The invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments. [6] Cristofori was an expert harpsichord maker, and was well acquainted with the body of knowledge on stringed keyboard instruments; this knowledge of keyboard mechanisms and actions helped him to develop the first pianos. It is not known exactly when Cristofori first built a piano. An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700. The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s. [7] [8] Cristofori named the instrument un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte ("a keyboard of cypress with soft and loud"), abbreviated over time as pianoforte, fortepiano, and later, simply, piano. [9] The rare transposing piano (an example of which was owned by Irving Berlin) has a middle pedal that functions as a clutch that disengages the keyboard from the mechanism, so the player can move the keyboard to the left or right with a lever. This shifts the entire piano action so the pianist can play music written in one key so that it sounds in a different key. Piano tuning involves adjusting the tensions of the piano's strings with a specialized wrench, thereby aligning the intervals among their tones so that the instrument is in tune. While guitar and violin players tune their own instruments, pianists usually hire a piano tuner, a specialized technician, to tune their pianos. The piano tuner uses special tools. The meaning of the term in tune in the context of piano tuning is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning carefully assesses the interaction among all notes of the chromatic scale, different for every piano, and thus requires slightly different pitches from any theoretical standard. Pianos are usually tuned to a modified version of the system called equal temperament (see Piano key frequencies for the theoretical piano tuning). In all systems of tuning, each pitch is derived from its relationship to a chosen fixed pitch, usually the internationally recognized standard concert pitch of A 4 (the A above middle C). The term A440 refers to a widely accepted frequency of this pitch – 440Hz.

King, Rosie (14 September 2018). "World's first 108-key concert grand piano built by Australia's only piano maker". ABC. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018 . Retrieved 15 September 2018. Musical scales are an essential part of music improvisation and composition. Practicing scales will provide you with the necessary skills to play different styles of music like Jazz, Flamenco or Blues. You can also use scales to create your own melodies and set the mood of your piece. In classical Monk fashion, he began studying piano at 11 and by 13 was banned from entering the Apollo talent competition for winning too many times. He dropped out of high school at 17 to pursue his music career. He assembled a quartet to perform with despite the popularity of big band sounds at the time, he enjoyed the more intimate working environment that would allow him to experiment more freely with his music. Scholes, Percy A.; John Owen Ward (1970). The Oxford Companion to Music (10th ed.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp.lvi. ISBN 978-0-19-311306-0. Pianos are heavy and powerful, yet delicate instruments. Over the years, professional piano movers have developed special techniques for transporting both grands and uprights, which prevent damage to the case and to the piano's mechanical elements. Pianos need regular tuning to keep them on correct pitch. The hammers of pianos are voiced to compensate for gradual hardening of the felt, and other parts also need periodic regulation. Pianos need regular maintenance to ensure the felt hammers and key mechanisms are functioning properly. Aged and worn pianos can be rebuilt or reconditioned by piano rebuilders. Strings eventually must be replaced. Often, by replacing a great number of their parts, and adjusting them, old instruments can perform as well as new pianos.

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The inharmonicity of piano strings requires that octaves be stretched, or tuned to a lower octave's corresponding sharp overtone rather than to a theoretically correct octave. If octaves are not stretched, single octaves sound in tune, but double—and notably triple—octaves are unacceptably narrow. Stretching a small piano's octaves to match its inherent inharmonicity level creates an imbalance among all the instrument's intervallic relationships. In a concert grand, however, the octave "stretch" retains harmonic balance, even when aligning treble notes to a harmonic produced from three octaves below. This lets close and widespread octaves sound pure, and produces virtually beatless perfect fifths. This gives the concert grand a brilliant, singing and sustaining tone quality—one of the principal reasons that full-size grands are used in the concert hall. Smaller grands satisfy the space and cost needs of domestic use; as well, they are used in some small teaching studios and smaller performance venues. Alicia Keys stands out in today’s era of music. Her songs continue to explore topical issues within their lyrics and she infuses them with optimistic tones. She uses her platform to bring awareness to the issues that she believes like participating in the women’s march of 2017. 12. Otis Spann Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Don Shirley was a prominent pianist in the 20th century and was well-known for his unique style of playing the piano by mixing classical and jazz traditions. His early performances were influenced by the works of Nat King Cole and Charles Brown before Charles developed his own distinctive sound in his first single Confession Blues. With its success on the R&B charts, Charles continued to release songs until a year later his song I Got a Woman which was the first soul fusion of gospel and R&B. He played on many different pianos, but his was most commonly known as a Yamaha artist. In grand pianos the frame and strings are horizontal, with the strings extending away from the keyboard. The action lies beneath the strings, and uses gravity as its means of return to a state of rest. Grand pianos range in length from approximately 1.5 meters (4ft 11in) to 3 meters (9ft 10in). Some of the lengths have been given more-or-less customary names, which vary from time to time and place to place, but might include:

Petersen, Sonja (2013). "Craftsmen-Turned-Scientists? The Circulation of Explicit and Working Knowledge in Musical-Instrument Making, 1880–1960". Osiris. 28 (1): 212–231. doi: 10.1086/671378. ISSN 0369-7827. JSTOR 10.1086/671378. S2CID 143443333. Thomas Burkhalter (2014). Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut. Routledge. p.262. ISBN 9781135073695. Born as a slave, Tom Wiggins was a child piano prodigy who could imitate anything he heard for the first time and play it on the piano as early as age 3. What is even more impressive is that he was both blind and autistic, having a massive repertoire which he built only by hearing what others played. Davies, Hugh (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Seconded.). London: Macmillan.Loesser, Arthur (1991) [1954]. Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486265438. I think the link in LeeG's reply covers all the necessary steps but just to have it spelled out here.