![]() ![]() ![]() Much chamber music literature, especially that for string instruments, includes the piano, and many symphony orchestra compositions from the 20 th century include piano parts. Songs and choral music of many different stylistic varieties use the piano for accompaniment. It has associated with it an immense and ever-growing solo and concerto repertoire of classical music (listen to first audio example), and classical music written for other keyboard instruments is often performed on it as well. The piano is one of the most widely utilized instruments in western music. Pictured in the gallery on this page are three common models of the piano as defined by their size (the approximate length of their casing), and their soundboard orientation: seen in the first image is a ‘concert grand’ or ‘9-foot’ piano with horizontal soundboard in the second image a ‘baby grand’ or ‘7-foot’ piano with horizontal soundboard and in the third and fourth images ‘upright’ pianos with vertical soundboards (the distinction between these two otherwise identical models is that the second can be performed conventionally, by a performer, or by itself, because it is equipped with a electromagnetic mechanism controlled by digitally-stored information on a computer disc). The piano is a struck box-zither chordophone of European origin with a mechanically elaborate key-driven mechanism provided for each string-course. ![]()
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