The Clavinet is an electric clavichord created by Ernst Zacharias and made by the Hohner company in Trossingen, West Germany, between 1964 and 1982. The instrument uses rubber pads that line up with each key. When a key is pressed, the pad hits a specific spot on a tight string, producing sound.
The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano made and sold by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Sound is created when a hammer strikes a metal reed, which causes an electric current in a pickup. This instrument is similar in design to the Rhodes piano, but the sounds they produce are different.
An electric piano is a musical instrument with a keyboard that looks like a regular piano. Sound is created when mechanical hammers hit metal strings, reeds, or wire tines. This causes vibrations, which are then changed into electrical signals by pickups.
A prepared piano is a piano whose sounds are temporarily changed by placing objects like bolts, screws, mutes, or rubber erasers on or between the strings. The invention of the prepared piano is often credited to John Cage, who used this technique in his dance music for Bacchanale (1940), written for a performance in Seattle where there was not enough space for a percussion group. Cage was influenced by Henry Cowell, who explored ways to manipulate the strings inside a piano instead of using the keyboard.
A player piano is a piano that plays music by itself. It uses air-powered or electricity-powered systems to move the piano’s keys, guided by paper or metal rolls with holes. Modern player pianos use a system called MIDI.
A piano is a keyboard instrument that makes sound when its keys are pressed. Pressing a key activates a mechanism that causes hammers to strike strings inside the piano. Most modern pianos have 88 black and white keys, except for some special models like Bosendörfer and Stuart & Sons pianos.
The Weber Piano Company was a piano-making business located in New York City and East Rochester, New York from the middle of the 1800s until the start of the 1900s. It remained part of Aeolian-American in East Rochester, New York until 1985, when Aeolian-American closed down. After that, the Weber name was sold to a piano company in South Korea called Young Chang.
A piano is a keyboard instrument that makes sound when its keys are pressed. Pressing a key activates a system that causes felt-covered wooden hammers to strike strings inside the piano. Most modern pianos have 88 black and white keys, except for the Bosendörfer and Stuart & Sons models, which are tuned to all the notes in order using equal temperament.
A fortepiano [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early type of piano. The term “fortepiano” can refer to any piano made from its invention in 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori up to the early 1800s. Most often, it describes pianos from the middle 1700s to the early 1800s, which were used by composers of the Classical era, such as Haydn and Mozart, to write their piano music.
A fortepiano [ˌfɔrteˈpjaːno] is an early type of piano. The word “fortepiano” can refer to any piano made from the time the instrument was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 1800s. Usually, it describes pianos made between the mid-1700s and early 1800s, which were used by composers from the Classical era, such as Haydn and Mozart, to write their piano music.