Fun Facts
You use your fingers to play a piano's _____________.
Keys/keyboard
The strings are hit by _____________ inside the piano.
Hammers
When first invented, the pianos were much too ____________ for most people to own.
Expensive
The cast iron metal frame of the piano is called the
Harp
There are ____ million non-professional piano players in the United States.
18
You use your feet to push the ___________.
Pedals
The hammers in a piano are covered in _______.
Felt
The piano plays both _________ and _________ than any other instrument.
Lower and higher
A new piano should be tuned ____ times in the first year.
4
What two instruments families is the piano considered to be a part of?
String and percussion
Soft and loud
If you raise the _______ of a piano, it sounds louder.
Lid
Until the 1950s piano keys were often made from
Ivory (a material from elephant tusks).
Pianos have 3
pedals
The world record for the longest piano concert ever held, by Polish musician Romuald Koperski is ________ hours and 8 seconds long.
103
The piano has _____ black and white keys.
88
The ___________ inside a piano vibrate to make the higher and lower pitched sounds.
Strings
The most expensive Steinway piano is worth
$2.5 million
How many white keys are on the piano?
52
10,000
Bartolomeo Christofori, the inventor of the piano, came from what country?
Italy
Pushing the keys harder/more softly makes the sound more ________ or soft.
Loud
How many pianos made by Cristofori still exist today?
3
How many black keys are on the piano?
36
A piano has how many total parts?
12,000