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karfoogle@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoUnlike a lot of other instruments listed here, you can’t hit the right piano key and get the wrong note because you didn’t hold your fingers right, or held the bow at the wrong angle, or hit the wrong part of the drum head, or blew too hard, or pursed your lips wrong. If you hit the right button, the right note plays.
procrastitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes and no… with a real (not digital) piano it actually does matter how you hit the keys. If you don’t press quickly enough the hammer won’t have enough momentum to actually strike the strings.
I believe this effect is more pronounced with a grand piano, but the same thing can happen with an upright piano too.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A decent-quality digital piano (with weighted keys) has the same “problem,” on purpose.
A cheap electronic “keyboard” is easier (but less musically expressive) in that way.
(What’s really interesting are some of the more exotic electronic keyboards that have features like touch sensors so you can do vibrato, and stuff like that.)