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The piano is a musical instrument whose sound is created by felt hammers striking steel strings that are stretched across a wooden bridge attached to a soundboard. Standard full-sized pianos have 88 keys—52 white keys and 36 black.
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Fast Facts
- Name derived from the Italian pianoforte, meaning soft & loud
- Commonly 150 cm wide
- Likely inventor: Padua, Italy's Bartolomeo Cristofori
- First known piano surfaced around 1700
- Descendant of the clavichord and harpsichord
- Popular configurations: Grand, baby grand and upright
- Self-playing "player" piano invented in 1863
- Digital pianos and electronic keyboards came into wide use in the 1980s
- Key instrument in classical and jazz and R&B
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