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Post by tremolo on Mar 20, 2005 11:26:45 GMT
Is piano a percussion, string or keyboard instrument?
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Post by tremolo on Mar 21, 2005 12:31:22 GMT
i would say all three.
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Post by Katet on Mar 21, 2005 14:02:06 GMT
Orchestrally and technically speaking, its a percussion instrument isnt it?
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Post by monkey laydee on Apr 21, 2005 19:35:13 GMT
But it's more musical and has strings! Meh. I dunno!
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Post by tremolo on Apr 22, 2005 7:47:51 GMT
But it's more musical and has strings! Meh. I dunno! right! It's musical, percussion, string and keyboard!
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Post by OscarAdler on Apr 22, 2005 9:53:52 GMT
Definitely a percussion instrument- It's got hammers that hit things. The harpsichord on the other hand....well, you work that one out... As to the idea that percussion instruments are less versatile, I was in town shopping yesterday and there were three buskers playing a xylophone, a marimba and a vibrophone. They were playing an arrangement of the mozart piano sonata with the rondo alla turca in it amazingly and quickly. So you get some talented musical percussionists too...
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Post by jazzking on Apr 23, 2005 19:23:52 GMT
Osacr, this is very true. Such a shame that percussionists get a poor rap just because they hit things...a lot.. Jazzking.
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Post by monkey laydee on Apr 23, 2005 20:25:36 GMT
I like hitting things anyway.
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Post by tremolo on Apr 23, 2005 23:32:29 GMT
I don't!
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Post by jazzking on Apr 25, 2005 19:11:52 GMT
I suppose it would be pretty damn difficult to strum it! Unless you consider the original doc' who theme which did run keys up and down the wires.
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Post by musicfan on Apr 29, 2005 20:39:32 GMT
The original Dr Who theme eh? I once met Roger Limb of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who composed(?) and performed(?) that very piece. Very interesting bloke, and one of those jobs that is more "fun" than "work"! IIRC it was in the days before many commercial synthesisers were available and most of it was (ab)using musical and non-musical instruments in strange ways like jazzking mentioned. Anyway, back to the piano. Apparantly the harp is the biggest stringed instrument, so that must mean a piano doesn't qualify. Xylophones etc are "tuned percussion", so is a piano "stringed percussion" perhaps?
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Post by tremolo on Apr 29, 2005 23:04:38 GMT
possbbly...
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Post by Matt on Apr 30, 2005 9:53:58 GMT
Another, slightly off-topic idea: slap bass, for example. You hit the strings, but it's still a string instrument...
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Post by jazzking on Apr 30, 2005 18:24:10 GMT
Slap bass, slap the drummer! makes an interesting sound too! Love Jaco Pastorius on the slapping front. Popularly Mark Knofpler (spelling?) too.
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Post by Matt on Apr 30, 2005 18:35:59 GMT
Slap bass, slap the drummer! makes an interesting sound too! Love Jaco Pastorius on the slapping front. Popularly Mark Knofpler (spelling?) too. We're not a fan of drummers are we jazzking?
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