What musical instrument does the piano belong to? Introduction to piano.

1. Piano is a keyboard instrument. The piano is a keyboard instrument, which uses the keys to pull the hammer and beat the strings. Since the end of18th century, the piano has been the most important keyboard instrument in Europe and America. Piano originated in Europe. /kloc-At the beginning of the 8th century, an Italian named BartolomeoChristofori invented a keyboard instrument similar to the modern piano, which has a history of more than 300 years.

2. Piano (Italian: pianoforte) is a keyboard instrument in western classical music and has the reputation of "the king of musical instruments". It consists of 88 keys (52 white keys and 36 black keys) and a metal chord board. The Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) invented the piano in 1709.

3. The range of piano ranges from A2(27.5Hz) to C5(4 186Hz), covering almost all tones in the music system, and it is the instrument with the widest range except the organ. Piano is widely used in solo, ensemble and accompaniment performances.

4. Origin of the name: Piano mbth is a piano, and its full name should be Pianoforte, which means weak and strong. Because this instrument can emit both weak and strong sounds, it has such an extremely vivid name. Later, perhaps for the convenience of appellation, people omitted forte, meaning strong voice, and only retained piano, meaning weak voice, which has been used ever since. Chinese was translated into piano because after the Opium War, some foreign businessmen saw the market potential of China and exported pianos to China in large quantities, claiming that they were made of "steel", so China people began to habitually call them "pianos".