construction - What is the length of piano keys, in inches - Music ...
2022年8月21日 · The black keys are 1/16 in. wider and 3/16 in. taller, but otherwise identical. So all in all the two pianos are so extremely similar as to be almost identical. Certainly the 88 note keybed (where the notes are placed) is within 1/8" of being exactly the same length.
Is there a standard width for piano keys? - Music: Practice
2014年6月16日 · Some of that is the original tooling and cutting (piano keys are sliced like bread from one piece of material) and some of the variance can be from wear. The keys at the far ends of the keyboard will be a good bit wider on an older, heavily played instrument than the keys in the middle of the keyboard, where the most playing occurs."
How high from the ground should the keyboard from a piano be?
A Steinway large grand piano I believe is 28 1/8" (71,5 cm) high from the floor to the top of the white keys. You could call that a standard. The hight varies for different makers, and pianos, with over an inch higher and lower than that. (My Yamaha upright piano is 28 3/8" [72 cm].)
frequency - What are the true frequencies of the piano keys?
2014年5月6日 · Yes, you are correct, the "true" frequencies will differ from piano to piano. In addition to the answers already given here, I would like to add more information regarding inharmonicity. The amount of offset or "stretched tuning" for the strings of an acoustic piano will vary with the size and type of the piano.
piano - Is there any midi software that can display in real-time the ...
I know there's some software you can use to play a piano score, and there's also software you can use to capture what you're playing on a keyboard on a computer (through a MIDI interface) so I was wondering if there was a software that could bring those two worlds together and display in real-time the notes I'm playing next to the piano score.
Why are pianos traditionally tuned "out of tune" at the extremes?
The problem with the piano is that if you tune the low notes to standard pitch, the upper notes would sound slightly sour at standard pitch. Therefore the most used notes in the midrange should be at standard pitch allowing upper notes to be sweetened by being slightly sharp and the lower notes tuned slightly flat for the same reason.
Black keys - what scale are these, how to use them?
2021年5月13日 · The black keys on the piano are exactly what you said, pentatonic scales. Which scale it is depends on what you use as your tonic or focus note. You mentioned G♭, the black keys are a G♭ (or F♯) major pentatonic scale. Add the white keys C♭ (B) and F and you have a full blown G♭ major scale.
piano - Is there a color code for notes? - Music: Practice & Theory ...
There is a piano pedagogy method known as the "Rainbow Piano Technique" that assigns colors to different notes on the keyboard. This color code includes a large number of distinct colors which are assigned to notes spanning a little more than 3 octave, including selected accidentals.
How to explain black and white keys on a piano keyboard
Regarding the pattern of black and white keys and this diatonic/chromatic system you must realize these elements can be transposed to 12 different starting notes. So, all the white keys on the piano are the diatonic scale. If you start that on C, you get the C major scale. But you can transpose that major scale to a different starting note like ...
Why is this part on my digital piano making a clicking/popping …
2023年9月23日 · I have a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano, and two of the keys make an annoying clicking/popping noise when depressed. I opened up the piano and deduced that the cause of the noise are these little rubber nibs: The other rubber nibs are silent when depressed, but these two (circled in red) make a popping/clicking noise when depressed.