<- This is a piano
<- This is a keyboard
What’s the difference?
A traditional piano is large and heavier, for its insides to be filled with the parts needed for the piano to play. Which are strings and little hammers. A keyboard however, lighter and easier to move, is filled with wires and digital circuits to create noise Pianos have 88 heavy, weighted keys, whereas keyboards usually have 61 or 76 lighter.
What instrument group is the piano in?
The piano is in both the percussion and string instrument group. Two at the same time! How unique, am I right? The reason why it is in both is because you hit the piano keys and it plucks a string inside the piano. A simple keyboard would be classified as only a percussion, because there are no strings working inside the keyboard.
Are there even famous pianists?
Yes, of course! Plenty! Two very well-known pianists are Mozart and