My Favorite Musical Instrument

Piano

Is a musical instrument classified as a keyboard instrument swinging strings by traditional classification system according to the Hornbostel-Sachs classification, the piano is a simple string instrument. The musician who plays the piano called a pianist.It consists of a sounding board, to which was added a keyboard, which cause effects by steel cords covered with felt hammers producing sound.

The vibrations are transmitted through the bridges to the soundboard, which amplifies them. It consists of a multi-string chromatic harp, driven by an indirect percussion mechanism, which switches have been added. It was invented around the year 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori Padua. Among its predecessors are instruments like the sitar, the monochord, the dulcimer, the clavichord and harpsichord.