Assertion: piano's hammer | /r/CapableOf | strike string
Facets:
value: with the piano
type: MANNER
value: in their optimal position
type: LOCATION
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: for each note
type: PURPOSE
value: inside
type: OTHER
value: for each given pitch
type: OTHER
value: over
type: MANNER
value: on a piano
type: LOCATION
value: as with virtually all later pianos
type: OTHER
value: at a time
type: TEMPORAL
value: in cristofori's instruments
type: LOCATION
value: of two strings
type: OTHER
value: simultaneously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: What’s more, it’s a doubly percussive instrument: You strike a key, which causes a hammer to strike a string.
text: On a grand piano, the whole keyboard and action shifts a bit to the left so that the hammers only hit two strings instead of three.
text: The hammer must strike the string, but not remain in contact with it, because this would damp the sound and stop the string from vibrating and making sound.
text: Each key is a level that makes a hammer inside the piano hit a string inside, producing a sound.
text: When a key is pressed down, the damper comes off the string and a hammer hits the string.
text: When the una corda pedal is depressed on a grand piano, the internal piano action is shifted to the right, such that the hammers hit only two strings, resulting in a softer sound.
text: On the modern piano, the soft pedal can only reduce the number of strings struck from three to two, whereas the pianos of the classical era were more flexible, permitting the player to select whether the hammers would strike three strings, two, or just one.
text: In grand pianos it shifts the entire action/keyboard assembly to the right (a very few instruments have shifted left) so that the hammers hit two of the three strings for each note.
text: When the una corda was activated, the entire action shifted to the right so that the hammers hit one string (una corda) instead of two strings (due corde).
text: Historically, this pedal would result in the hammers hitting only one string (hence the name, meaning ‘one string’)- nowadays, due to the space constraints within piano cabinets, two strings are hit.
text: Dominic Gill says that when the hammers strike only one string, the piano "...produces a softer, more ethereal tone.
text: When a key is pressed, the hammer normally hits all of these strings simultaneously.
text: As with virtually all later pianos, in Cristofori's instruments the hammers struck more than one string at a time; Cristofori used pairs of strings throughout the range.
text: In most grand's, the soft pedal shifts the entire action sideways, causing the treble hammers to hit only two of their three strings.
text: The hammers that strike the strings are affixed to a mechanism resting on the far ends of the keys; hammer and mechanism compose the “action.
text: 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.
text: The use of a Capo d’Astro bar instead of agraffes in the uppermost treble allowed the hammers to strike the strings in their optimal position, greatly increasing that area's power.
text: This instrument has a braceless back, and a soundboard positioned below the keys—meaning that long metal rods pulled on the levers to make the hammers strike the strings.
text: This is because the hammers strike the strings.
text: the mechanism that causes hammers to strike the strings when a key is pressed — which is why they often feel so different to play.
text: As you play a piano and the hammers strike the strings over and over again, grooves form on the hammers.
text: The mechanical components that start with the keys that your fingers depress and end with the hammer that strikes the strings creating the sound are called the action.
text: Unlike a music synthesizer, the instrument actually produces the sound itself, with the keys moving up and down, driving hammers that strike the strings.
text: When a piano key is pressed, a hammer flies up and strikes the strings tuned to produce the corresponding note, then falls away from the strings quickly so as not to stop their vibration.
text: When you press a piano key, two things happen: (1) a damper moves away from the strings for that note so they can vibrate freely, and (2) a hammer strikes the strings.
text: Now, if the mechanical connection between key and hammer was a simple lever, then the hammer would strike the strings and remain in contact with them as long as you held down the key.
text: Just an instant before the hammer strikes the strings, it "escapes" its connection to the key so that it can strike the strings and then fall away from them, allowing them to continue to vibrate.
text: Where hammers strike the strings on a piano, they develop string impressions, or grooves, over time.
text: 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.
text: The use of a Capo d’Astro bar instead of agraffes in the uppermost treble allowed the hammers to strike the strings in their optimal position, greatly increasing that area's power.
text: This instrument has a braceless back, and a soundboard positioned below the keys—meaning that long metal rods pulled on the levers to make the hammers strike the strings.
text: On a grand piano, the whole keyboard and action shifts a bit to the left so that the hammers only hit two strings instead of three.
text: In early pianos, it was possible to press the pedal a little way so that the hammers hit two strings, then press it further so that they hit only one string.
text: On the modern piano, the una corda pedal makes the hammers of the treble section hit two strings instead of three.
text: On a grand piano, the whole keyboard and action shifts a bit to the left so that the hammers only hit two strings instead of three.
text: On a grand piano, the whole keyboard and action shifts a bit to the left so that the hammers only hit two strings instead of three.
text: In early pianos, it was possible to press the pedal a little way so that the hammers hit two strings, then press it further so that they hit only one string.
text: The hammer hits two strings or three and the volume is coupled, or tripled.
text: With the piano, a hammer strikes the string, whereas with a harpsichord, a mechanism plucks the string.
text: The hammer strikes the string and falls back, even if the key is still depressed.
text: When you play a key, the hammer strikes the string, causing it to vibrate, and that's how the sound is produced.
text: The hammer strikes the string and immediately bounces back a little bit so that the string is free to vibrate.
text: The piano action involves a special "escapement mechanism": Just an instant before the hammer strikes the string, the hammer "escapes" from its connection with the key; hence it bounces back a little bit after striking the string.
text: It is based on a double-repetition mechanism: After the hammer strikes the string, the lever catches the hammer again close to the string, and by that enables you to play key again immediately.
text: The hammer must strike the string, but not remain in contact with it, because this would damp the sound and stop the string from vibrating and making sound.
text: Each key is a level that makes a hammer inside the piano hit a string inside, producing a sound.
text: Rather than hammers hitting strings as on a standard piano, the toy piano sounds by way of hammers hitting metal bars or rods which are fixed at one end.
text: A tack piano, also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and a junk piano, is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the hammers hit the strings, giving the instrument a tinny, more percussive sound.
text: On a piano, however, those vibrations are initiated by hammers hitting the strings rather than by plucking or by moving a bow across them.
text: When a key is pressed, the hammer hits the strings for that note.
text: But you can change the tone that is produced when the hammer hits the string.
text: When a key is pressed down, the damper comes off the string and a hammer hits the string.
text: If a piano hammer were attached directly to the back end of a key, when the key was depressed, the hammer would hit the string and stay there, damping out all vibration and sound.
text: In grand piano the hammers will shift a little bit to the side, so if a key has three strings, the hammer will hit only two strings producing a softer sound (that's a clever piano technique, isn't it?)
text: Normally, when you play a piano key, the hammer strikes three strings for each given pitch.
text: In grand pianos it shifts the entire action/keyboard assembly to the right (a very few instruments have shifted left) so that the hammers hit two of the three strings for each note.