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Old 02-21-2022, 06:38 AM
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I believe piano is considered a percussion instrument.
It is, but it still has strings. Guess it fits a couple categories. There are many percussion instruments that are similar to keyboard instruments.
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Old 02-22-2022, 02:56 PM
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My first instrument was the drums. Only instrument I ever had proper lessons on.
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I used to play alto and tenor sax, then played bass clarinet in college. Couldn't sing with any of them.
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Old 02-23-2022, 07:47 PM
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It is, but it still has strings. Guess it fits a couple categories. There are many percussion instruments that are similar to keyboard instruments.
Well, a REAL acoustic piano certainly does have strings - lots and lots of them.

However, a digital piano, doesn't. So I hope that could count in this thread.

Anyway, I have a digital piano that I do play. I taught myself to play cocktail style piano through a self-teaching course. The purpose for me was to take that back to the guitar. Though it obviously didn't really translate directly, it really helped me figure out stuff that I probably would not have been able to really "see" on the guitar otherwise. The cool thing is that now I have too instruments.

For some reason, if I sit down at the piano and whip out "Misty" or "Over the Rainbow" or "Here's That Rainy Day" or some other standard, people listen and like it and listen. If I try that with the guitar, people always ask "why don't you sing?", and promptly go back to whatever they were doing before I was there.

So the guitar is for personal enjoyment and the piano is for both, for me in my personal experience so far.

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Old 02-26-2022, 08:46 AM
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Well, a REAL acoustic piano certainly does have strings - lots and lots of them.

However, a digital piano, doesn't. So I hope that could count in this thread.

Tony
Funny, all the strings on an acoustic piano.

And it is considered a percussion instrument.

Due to how the strings are played, with hammers.
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Old 02-26-2022, 08:58 AM
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Funny, all the strings on an acoustic piano.

And it is considered a percussion instrument.

Due to how the strings are played, with hammers.
True enough. I believe the same is true for the guitar.

The piano does have great sustain with the sustain pedal pressed down.

Of course these days, it seems that most everything can be a percussion instrument.

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Yep……….. air guitar.
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Funny, all the strings on an acoustic piano. And it is considered a percussion instrument. ue to how the strings are played, with hammers.
This. The piano is not a string-instrument.
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I believe piano is considered a percussion instrument.
It's both...
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I play table leg:

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Piano evolved into synth.
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Maybe I should've started a 'Is a piano a stringed instrument?' thread.
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Played drums semi-pro. Also woodwinds (saxes, clarinets, flutes); free-reeds (piano accordion, diatonic button accordions, concertinas); fiddle, cello, lever harps, zithers (strings, but quite different from guitar)..

*BTW to me it's interesting, any way - I'd even point out the differences with pedal steel, it's as fundamentally different as bowing or blowing - just has the same guitar layout.. but the sound is as distinctively different as anything - they're actually more akin to long zithers. Volume/dynamics production on pedal steel is like accordion or horns, bowed strings.. can render volume swell/variation, legato/continuous.. as the plucked strings do not. Really, electric guitar is likewise a totally different instrument from ac guitar.

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Played drums since the age of 10, mostly in punk bands but then got really into jazz drumming about 10 years ago. Also play a wee bit of anglo concertina, probably going to get more serious about that one this year.
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