piano keys

    
piano keys    22:51 on Wednesday, March 31, 2004          
(buck)
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how many keys on a piano? whenever i try to count them i loose count. please help me.


Re: piano keys    04:12 on Thursday, April 1, 2004          
(jh)
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88
7 octaves + 2 more keys


Re: piano keys    03:52 on Friday, April 2, 2004          
(jannii)
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how come theres 2 more keys?..wht didn they jus left it as 7 octaves??..it wouldve been easier..(jus woonnderinn..)


Re: piano keys    05:47 on Monday, April 5, 2004          
(Harvey)
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It used to be just seven octaves, but something weird happened and they added three more keys.
Some pianos have more than 88 keys, but the last few keys are almost never used.


Re: piano keys    07:34 on Thursday, April 8, 2004          
(Fabi)
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I saw a Bösendorfer piano (perhaps you dosen`t Bösendorfer it` an Austria and I`m from Germany)and it had nealy an oktave more th diepst note was a G under the normal A. It was a great concert Piano and special production.


Re: piano keys    07:35 on Thursday, April 8, 2004          
(Fabi)
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I saw a Bösendorfer piano (perhaps you dosen`t Bösendorfer it` an Austria and I`m from Germany)and it had nealy an oktave more th diepst note was a G under the normal A. It was a great concert Piano and special production.


Re: piano keys    18:37 on Thursday, April 8, 2004          
(FlightofbublBE)
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kinda related...............
how many strings on an 88 key`d piano?


Re: piano keys    19:28 on Sunday, April 11, 2004          
(Anita)
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There are 88!


Re: piano keys    22:04 on Monday, April 12, 2004          
(music man)
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on an 88 key piano there are more then 88 keys. For the high registers there are three strings to a note, then two and the last few have one string per note (strings are two think to dampen two strings)

i`m not counting though?


Re: piano keys    13:52 on Tuesday, April 13, 2004          
(Harvey)
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"on an 88 key piano there are more then 88 keys."
I think you meant strings.
On my piano there are 225 PINS, that is (3(59)+2(19)+1(10)). One of the treble strings may be looped around the other side and wound in another peg. According to my guesses, there are 137 strings.


Re: piano keys    19:37 on Tuesday, April 13, 2004          
(music man)
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i stand corrected. (keys/strings)

i`m sure piano`s differ on the number of strings.

By the way i recently discovered that Bosendorfer is the only company that tunes the strings lower then the low a on other pianos.

Sometimes they make those keys black. There are some pieces that use these notes however they are mostly there to add bass to EVERY note. These strings are designed to vibrate when any note is pressed on the piano. This adds depth to the tone of the piano.


   




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