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 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:08 pm
moon_child113 The piano is FORMALLY classified as a Percussion instrument because it involves "mallets" (internally) and because you are "striking it to create sound not bowing or plucking. Personally, I think it could be either but is more likely to be seen as within its own catagory "Keyboard instruments." Yes, I agree, it should be placed in it's own category, since it involved components from both strings and percussion.
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:38 am
I think it's a stringed instrument. You may not be plucking or strumming the strings like on a guitar, but there is SOMETHING hitting the strings when you press the keys down. That's just my opinion though razz
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:43 am
Piano is a percussion instrument because the strings are hit with a hammer to make sound. A stringed instrument is usually plucked, like a harp is. A violin/viola/cello/bass is plucked too, just with a bow. That's where the rosin comes in, it makes the bow "pluck" the strings. And a bass is plucked in jazz music.
So piano is a percussion instrument because of the fact that the strings are hit with a hammer.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:55 am
Definitely percussion - I play a lot of orchestral reductions for choirs, and I can't sound like string instruments! I can't crescendo on a held note, and the sound of the note always has a percussive beginning, not the gentle entrance of a bowed string.
I've also played with jazz bands, where piano is clearly part of the rhythm section with the drums (and is usually placed near them)
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:17 am
Percussion,
A.) you hit the keys, not pull a bow across them,
B.) look at Marimbas and Vibes, they are in the same family as a piano, and they are obviously not string instruments.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:07 pm
Le Cosmo >3> I am positively, absolutely, not doubting that the Pianoforte is in fact a Percussive instrument. If an old lady that was taught by Rachmoninov says that it is a percussion intrument, I know it is a percussion instrument. Why do we use our fingers to play on it? If you had a Saxophone and you did not blow into it and you just used the keys, by golly it sounds percussive. Rachmoninov > all of our thoughts. QFT Also, if there happens to be a piano part for a wind ensemble, it's grouped with the percussion parts. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:07 am
For me, the piano's more of a percussion because when you depress a key, a felt hammer inside the piano strikes it, thus producing the sound. 8D
But, all I can say in my opinion that the piano has its own category to fit in. It's unique, plus the combination of strings and percussion.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:03 pm
I play piano, and almost all of my friends play the piano, and we all know that it is technically a precussion instrument
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:09 pm
As it relates to the tuner, a string instrument. As it relates to me, a percussive instrument. I used to always says stringed but the way I strike a key more closely resembles a percussive instrument then a stringed one. Stringed instruments give you callouses.
But I completely agree with Requiems Lullaby. It surely has it's own category.
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:30 pm
the piano is actually both stringed and percussion
this is because it uses strings that vibrate and a percussion instrument as well because when you press a key, there is this hammer thing that bangs on the strings, causing it to vibrate making a sound you hear as a note
when i was young, i asked my music teacher that, and she said you could probably put the piano as string and percussion and i do
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