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 century the piano was invented in.
What is the 18th century?
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? (-2x points if McKenna answers)
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What piano keys were originally made out of.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 year the piano was invented.
The meaning of Presto.
What is very 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?