This instrument could go soft and loud. (This is what it is called today).
What is a Piano?
100
This part of a piano is made up of an complex system of mechanical devices that transmit movement from the keyboard to the strings.
What is the action?
100
This piano stands straight up.
What is a upright piano?
100
This is where the inventor was born.
What is Italy?
100
These hit the strings to produce a sound in a piano
What are (Padded) Mallets/Hammers?
200
This instrument was plucked by quills, or leather points.
What is a Harpsichord?
200
These are mainly made of steel, ant there are 220 of them in a piano that produce pitches, or tones.
What are the strings?
200
This piano is the main type of piano used in concerts. it usually has three legs, and is very big.
What is a grand piano?
200
This is the person who invented the piano.
Who is Bartolomeo Cristofori?
200
These were the people who invented the Water Organ.
Who are the Greeks?
300
This instrument produced a soft sound, and made its sound by metal called tangents.
What is a Clavichord?
300
This is the part of a piano that holds it all together.
What is the case?
300
This electric piano features sounds of other instruments
What is a keyboard?
300
This is who the inventor worked for. (Who he made harpsichords for).
Who is Prince Ferdinando (de Medici of Florence)?
400
This was the year in which the Piano was invented.
What is 1709?
400
These are located at the bottom of the piano, and are pressed by your feet.
What are the pedals?
400
This piano is not quite a grand piano, but if two grand pianos had a child, this would be their baby.
What is a Baby Grand?
400
This is the year the inventor died.
What is 1731?
500
This instrument produced a sound by water forced through pipes. this was the first instrument in the piano family, and was invented by the ancient Greeks in the third century B.C.
What is a Water Organ?
500
This is the acronym to remember the seven main parts of a piano.