PIANO KNOWLEDGE
The number of keys on a piano
What is 88?
The second-highest note on the piano.
What is B?
The number of beats a quarter note typically receives.
The musical alphabet backwards.
What is GFEDCBA?
The meaning of < on top of a note.
What is an accent or to play the note louder?
The number of pedals a piano typically has
What is three?
The second-lowest note on the piano.
What is A# (or Bb)?
The number of beats a quarter rest typically receives.
What is Middle C?
Three different brands of pianos.
What are Casio, Yamaha, Suzuki, Steinway, Kawai, Bosendorfer, Mason & Hamlin, and/or Korg.
It produces a clicking sound to help keep the beat.
What is a metronome?
The accidentals used to name black keys.
What are sharps and flats?
The type of note that has a filled-in notehead, a stem, and a flag.
The number of the LH pinky.
What is number 5?
What the piano was originally called.
What is pianoforte or fortepiano?
The type of piano typically used in larger concert halls.
What is a grand piano?
The bracketed five lines and four spaces (x2) that piano music is written on.
What is a grand staff? (No credit for "staff" but also no penalty)
A musical symbol which is shaped like an upside-down top hat.
What piano keys were originally made out of.
What is ivory (or elephant tusks)?
The fingerings used in a scale
What is 123 (cross thumb under) 12345?
The meaning of Allegro.
What is fast?
The number of letters in the musical alphabet.
The number of beats a dotted quarter note receives.
Three composers who wrote for the piano
Who are Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Debussy, Chopin, etc.?
The inventor of the piano.
Who is Bartolomeo Cristofori?