Musical instruments

                                  PIANO                        The musical instrumet piano has been an extremely popular instrument in Western classical music since late 18th century.The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua,Italy.He made his first piano in 1709. At first the instrument was called “fortepiano”. This means ‘loud-soft’ in Italian. It was given this name because it could be played either loudly or softly. Later this name changed to “pianoforte’. This is normally shortened to “Piano”.                A Piano has a keyboard with white keys and black keys. When a key is pressed down,the damper comes off the string and a hammer hits the string .It hits very quickly and bounces off so that the string is free to vibrate and make a sound. The mechanism which makes the hamm...