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Offline melissa

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Does anyone know...
on: April 08, 2005, 03:33:49 PM
Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!

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Offline BoliverAllmon

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Re: Does anyone know...
Reply #1 on: April 08, 2005, 03:54:45 PM
Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!

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so you can see them better?

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Reply #2 on: April 08, 2005, 04:51:04 PM
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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Offline Waldszenen

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Reply #3 on: April 09, 2005, 09:52:54 AM
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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Reply #4 on: April 10, 2005, 07:19:11 AM
Maybe because black costs more than white. :P
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Reply #5 on: April 13, 2005, 04:54:44 PM
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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Reply #6 on: April 14, 2005, 04:09:38 AM
Wow, I've never heard that before. Pretty interesting stuff.
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Offline sonatainfsharp

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Reply #7 on: April 17, 2005, 06:41:38 PM
Because you can only play the white ones at weddings and the black ones at funerals.

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Reply #8 on: April 18, 2005, 11:46:47 AM
Does anyone know why piano keys are black and white? Any help would be much appreciated!

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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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Reply #9 on: April 18, 2005, 07:51:26 PM
That is one COOL piano!
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