history: I'm learning how to play the piano.
knowledge: The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
response: That's very interesting! Did you know it was actually invented in 1700? An inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori, made it in Italy.
history: I'm learning how to play the piano.
That's very interesting! Did you know it was actually invented in 1700? An inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori, made it in Italy.
No I haven't actually looked into the history at all. Can you describe the mechanisms of playing the piano though? I get the piano makes noises but not sure really how.
knowledge: It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
response: Well there are hammers in the piano. When the keys are pressed, the hammers hit the strings.
history: I'm learning how to play the piano.
That's very interesting! Did you know it was actually invented in 1700? An inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori, made it in Italy.
No I haven't actually looked into the history at all. Can you describe the mechanisms of playing the piano though? I get the piano makes noises but not sure really how.
Well there are hammers in the piano. When the keys are pressed, the hammers hit the strings.
Oh, so that's how it works. How are modern pianos different from the ones used in the past?
knowledge: The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a quieter sound and smaller dynamic range.
response: The main difference is that the ''fortepianos'', as they were then called, had a quieter sound and smaller range than their modern counterparts.
history: I'm learning how to play the piano.
That's very interesting! Did you know it was actually invented in 1700? An inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori, made it in Italy.
No I haven't actually looked into the history at all. Can you describe the mechanisms of playing the piano though? I get the piano makes noises but not sure really how.
Well there are hammers in the piano. When the keys are pressed, the hammers hit the strings.
Oh, so that's how it works. How are modern pianos different from the ones used in the past?
The main difference is that the ''fortepianos'', as they were then called, had a quieter sound and smaller range than their modern counterparts.
Interesting. Are there different types of pianos?
knowledge: Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, () is an American-German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York City, the United States, by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).
response: I cannot answer that. However, have you heard of Steinways & Sons? It was a piano company that was created in 1853.
history: I'm learning how to play the piano.
That's very interesting! Did you know it was actually invented in 1700? An inventor, Bartolomeo Cristofori, made it in Italy.
No I haven't actually looked into the history at all. Can you describe the mechanisms of playing the piano though? I get the piano makes noises but not sure really how.
Well there are hammers in the piano. When the keys are pressed, the hammers hit the strings.
Oh, so that's how it works. How are modern pianos different from the ones used in the past?
The main difference is that the ''fortepianos'', as they were then called, had a quieter sound and smaller range than their modern counterparts.
Interesting. Are there different types of pianos?
I cannot answer that. However, have you heard of Steinways & Sons? It was a piano company that was created in 1853.
I have one actually! That's what I'll be practicing on. Do they make a lot of pianos?
knowledge: The factory in Queens supplies the Americas and the factory in Hamburg supplies the rest of the world.
response: Yes they do. Their factory in New York makes pianos for the Americas and their Hamburg factory manufactures pianos for the rest of the world.