🎹 Keyboard & Harp family
Piano
🔊 How it makes sound
Pressing a key throws a felt hammer at the strings inside. It is a string AND percussion instrument at once!
🎼 Range and clef
88 keys, over seven octaves, from very low to very high. Reads the grand staff: treble and bass clef.
🎨 Its timbre colour
Clear and ringing, and it can play many notes at once.
Timbre is the "colour" of a sound, the idea from Lesson 0. A violin and a flute can play the same note, but you can still tell them apart!
🎧 Listen to
Beethoven: "Für Elise"
💡 Fun fact
Your piano accompanist reads two staves at once, one for each hand.