Piano Forum
Piano Board => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: melissa on April 08, 2005, 03:33:49 PM
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Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
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Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
so you can see them better?
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i saw the upright piano which had keys made of ivory, they were yellow (it was really old piano) , but i don't know why keys are black and white. i guess this is because keys then look serious. just imagine how it would be if keys were pinky and green! ;D ;)
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Until midway through the classical period, the keys of pianos, harpsichords and other keyboard instruments were black/white instead of white/black like nowadays.
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Maybe because black costs more than white. :P
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Until midway through the classical period, the keys of pianos, harpsichords and other keyboard instruments were black/white instead of white/black like nowadays.
Because the keys were black, organists could easily direct choirs. What I mean is that choir members can see the hands of the organists more clearly with the keys being black.
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Wow, I've never heard that before. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Because you can only play the white ones at weddings and the black ones at funerals.
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Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
I would LURV to have a piano with black/white (instead of white/black) keys! Tha would be so interesting! Imagine that on a flat black (not gloss) steinway...ahh...soo cool...
Has anyone even seen the Olympia Steinway art case piano!??
Type "steinway olympia" into google.com/images
It is seriously my favorite art case piano...EVER!
I would love to play on that thing.
DLu
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That is one COOL piano!