The Piano as an Instrument

[m1469]

I'm just curious - is it real?  Am I in Heaven?  Was it just dropped straight here from Heaven?  Does having a piano "here" actually make this place Heaven?  Did a stork bring it?  Or an angel?

[Derek]

You pretty much nailed it on the head. It was rather kind of God to make the laws of physics such that building such a thing is possible 

[pianoplayjl]

The genius of humanity invented the instrument. I reckon having a piano to play it with pretty much makes this world a paradise.

[silverwoodpianos]

Pythagoras calculated the music scale in the 6th century BC that we use in pianos today; commonly known as the circle of fifths. This was calculated purely by mathematics as he had no knowledge of the science of sound.

 This mathematical revelation remained unused for more than a thousand years until string instruments began to appear shortly after the Battle of Hastings (1066AD) although those early instruments did not encompass the entire circle.

[49410enrique]

almost there, if only we can get this thing in our hands, then i think we'll finally be there.


seriously, build the thing already (for the rest of us)!

[pianoplayjl]

I never knew Pythagoras had something to do with music! I thought he was a mathematician.

[m1469]

I keep feeling like I'm in a dream while at the piano.  I don't understand this experience because, intellectually, it seems that I am learning as an adult, but it feels like I am remembering as a child.

Pythagoras "invented" the furthest descendant of the piano, as a single string stretched across two bridges, used as a mathematical measuring device.

[pianoplayjl]

Cool...

[silverwoodpianos]

I never knew Pythagoras had something to do with music! I thought he was a mathematician.

Yes Pythagoras was a mathematician. Here is some reading on the subject.

Remember this is Wikipedia, which is the perfect example of editorial content run amok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_ancient_Greece

[pianoplayjl]

I only knew Pythagoras as a mathematician because the Pythagoras' theorem was named after him.