Keyboards Trivia

1. What is the first and most common note that music books begin a new piano-learner on, when they are just starting to learn the instrument?

From Quiz The Piano

Answer: C

"Middle C" is the note that most piano players are first taught. When they are beginning to learn the instrument, it helps the player to master the notes of the different scales before moving onto more complicated pieces higher up and lower down the piano.

From Quiz Electronic Organs: Tonewheel to Wave Synthesis

Answer: It transmitted to multiple locations

The first Telharmonium weighed seven tons and its later incarnations were much heavier still, but its sound was portable: The instrument generated its tones in electrical form and fed the resulting currents to telephone wires so that all a subscriber needed to do was to connect a simple loudspeaker to the line output and they would hear live performances, a full nine years before the first experimental radio broadcast.

From Quiz Piano, the Instrument

Answer: 88

Inside a grand piano, there are strings which are hit by small objects called hammers when you press the keys on the keyboard. The string then vibrates, creating the sound that you hear from the piano.

From Quiz Piano Pop Quiz

Answer: 88

The piano has 32 black keys and 56 white keys.

From Quiz Basic Piano

Answer: 88

There are 36 black keys and 52 white keys. Some pianos, known as a high performance grand pianos, actually have 92 keys.

From Quiz Theatre Organs

Answer: manuals

The organ at the Radio City Music Hall has 5 manuals, where a theatre in Sandusky, Ohio has 3 manuals.

From Quiz Electronic Organs: Tonewheel to Wave Synthesis

Answer: Magnets and coils

A tonewheel was a simple and ingenious construction: A simple lightweight wheel had teeth fit to it at regular intervals similar to a gear. By spinning this wheel next to a pickup coil containing a permanent magnet, it induced an alternating current. Rotating wheels at different speeds and using different numbers of teeth per wheel allowed for various frequencies to be generated. Mixing these single frequencies created a surprisingly wide variance of sounds, many of them emulating natural instruments from the brass, woodwind and string family.

From Quiz Piano (bits and) Pieces

Answer: A minor

If you drop a piano down a mine shaft you may well land up with A flat miner. Sorry, I know that's cringe-worthy but couldn't resist. A minor is relative to C major and therefore has the same key signature. B minor is relative to D major and therefore has 2 sharps (F & C). C minor is relative to E flat major and therefore has 3 flats (B, E & A). D minor is relative to F major and therefore has just one flat (B).

From Quiz Piano Basics and Theory

Answer: 9 feet

Concert grands are longer than the standard grands which are usually around 6 feet. The concert grands produce a much better tone as the soundboards and strings are longer.

From Quiz Piano Pop Quiz

Answer: A

The lowest note on the piano is A, which is the farthest key to your left. A is a white key. On some rare pianos there several additional bass keys ending with a C that is subsonic.

From Quiz Easy Piano Quiz for Dummies

Answer: sharps and flats

The key signature will determine how many sharps or flats you will encounter in a piece.

From Quiz Theatre Organs

Answer: ranks

The organ that used to be at the Springdale Music Palace and is now at the Sharonville Music Palace has 33 ranks.

From Quiz The Piano

Answer: Hammer

Special hammers are used to hit the string using a simple mechanism so that when a key is depressed, the hammer strikes the corresponding string. The hammer then returns to its original position for the next time its note is needed. A plectrum is used to strum guitars, a bow is used on string instruments (e.g. the violin) and reeds are used on woodwind instruments (e.g. clarinets).

From Quiz Piano, the Instrument

Answer: 36

There are 36 black keys on the piano.

From Quiz Piano (bits and) Pieces

Answer: Bartolomeo Cristofori

Cristofori was born in Padua, Italy and worked for Prince Ferdinando de Medici as caretaker of the prince's large collection of instruments. The job required him to have technical knowledge of the instruments and the ability to carry out repairs when necessary. He built several different types of harpsichords, two of which he actually invented before building his first piano in about 1700. Baldwin, Bechstein and Steinweg (Steinway) are all famous piano makers.

From Quiz Piano Pop Quiz

Answer: C

C is the highest note, and is a white key. It is the farthest key to your right.

From Quiz Basic Piano

Answer: percussion

The piano is usually considered a part of the percussion family because it uses a hammer to hit the strings which makes the noise you hear. Brass instruments include the trumpet and trombone. The woodwinds include the clarinet, saxophone, and flute. String instruments include the violin and guitar.

From Quiz Theatre Organs

Answer: Atlantic City Convention Hall

The organ has over a hundred ranks, and has 6 manuals.

From Quiz The Piano

Answer: 36

There are 36 black keys and 52 white keys altogether making a total of 88. The black notes are: A#, C#, D#, F# and G# (or Bb, Db, Eb, Gb and Ab respectively); and the white notes are: A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

From Quiz Piano, the Instrument

Answer: soft pedal

When the soft pedal is pressed down, it pushes down all of the keys, so that the hammers are closer to the strings inside the piano. When you press the keys, the hammers are closer to the strings, so they will make a softer vibration. The pedal is also called "una corda."

From Quiz Piano (bits and) Pieces

Answer: Damper

The sustain or damper pedal raises all the dampers from the strings at the same time so that the played notes are sustained. The Una Corda and Soft pedal are one and the same thing. This pedal literally shifts the inner workings of the piano so that the hammer only hits one string. The Sostenuto pedal is generally only found on grand pianos while some upright pianos have a middle pedal called a practice pedal, which causes the sound to be muted.

From Quiz Piano Basics and Theory

Answer: four

The four flats are B-flat, E-Flat, A-flat, and D-flat.

From Quiz Piano Pop Quiz

Answer: Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous composer born in Bonn. Beethoven later moved to Vienna, where he died. He was deaf, and had a terrible temper. The piece "Fur Elise" is also known as "Bagatelle in A Minor". "Moonlight Sonata" is more formally called "Sonata Op.27 No.2". Beethoven's piano music consists of 32 sonatas, along with many other small pieces, and is commonly found in classical music books.

From Quiz Easy Piano Quiz for Dummies

Answer: Liszt

Born in 1811, he has long been considered the greatest piano player of all time. He was somewhat of an idol among the aristocracy. Towards the end of his life, Liszt became an abbe, devoting his life to the church. The Roger Daltry film is called "Lisztomania," and is a very odd film indeed.

From Quiz Basic Piano

Answer: Pianoforte

It is called the pianoforte because it can be both loud and soft. Piano being soft and forte being loud.

From Quiz The Piano

Answer: Quiet-loud

'Piano' is the Italian word for 'soft' or 'quiet' and 'forte' is Italian for 'strong' or 'loud'. The instrument was called this because it could create a range of dynamics when being played.

From Quiz Electronic Organs: Tonewheel to Wave Synthesis

Answer: A single-keypress chord panel

After the frequency divider architecture made it possible to sound many notes at a time, the next step was to use this capability to make playing chords easier: A rectangular button panel similar to the bass system of an accordion contained all important chords for each of the twelve base notes. Complex models had not only minor, major and seventh chords but also more complex ones such as chords with sixths, augmented and diminished chords. Chord organs were usually low-end to midrange home instruments designed for beginners. The original design survived all the way into the 1980s in the form of a reduced panel allowing only between eight and twenty chords overall, usually those you would most often need in the keys of C major and a minor.

From Quiz Piano Basics and Theory

Answer: four

Commontime is another form of 4-4 time. This means that each beat is worth one quarter note and each measure has four beats. Cut-time is another form of 2-2 time.

From Quiz Piano Pop Quiz

Answer: Tremolo

In a tremolo you usually play an octave with each hand. They are written above the notes as a 'Z' looking figure, but with more lines. Tremoli are usually played at the end of a song. The definition for the word is "a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones".(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) The word "tremolo" is Italian, coming from the Latin word tremulus.

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