Is piano considered a string intsrument or a percussion?!
Question: A more accurate answer would be keyboard. But generally it's considered a percussion instrument. It's never classified as string. If it's in an orchestra it will be placed together with the other percussions, unless it's a solo concerto - then it'll be right in the middle of the stage with the orchestra surrounding it in a fan-shape formation.
It is NOT, and I repeat NOT a string instrument!! The sound is produced by hammers striking strings inside the piano. Any form of sound production via hitting is considered percussive.
Answers: A more accurate answer would be keyboard. But generally it's considered a percussion instrument. It's never classified as string. If it's in an orchestra it will be placed together with the other percussions, unless it's a solo concerto - then it'll be right in the middle of the stage with the orchestra surrounding it in a fan-shape formation.
It is NOT, and I repeat NOT a string instrument!! The sound is produced by hammers striking strings inside the piano. Any form of sound production via hitting is considered percussive.
A harpsichord is a stringed instrument, but a pianoforte is percussion.
String instruments are rubbed or plucked.
Piano is a percussion insturment.
IT IS A PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT...EACH STRING IS ACTUALLY HIT BY A HAMMER.
It can be classified as both.
It's percussion, but one could argue that it's either one.
The most common string instruments in Western music are those in the violin, piano and guitar families.
It's a percussion.
Hi, My husband is a pianist and studied at college. It is definitely a percussion instrument because the sound is produced by the hammer striking a string.
According to Wikipedia it is both in a loose sense of the term.
I can tell you its a percussion instrument! I made the mistake of considering it a string instrument in my music class (i'm a pianist). It's a percussion instrument, because of the action of the hammers on the strings: the sound is not caused by a pinch of the strings, but by a hit of a hammer. Your fingers have no direct contact with the strings.
Talking about pianos, I came across this amazing video of this Korean girl, a 20 year old pianist, giving concerts world wide... she plays with only 4 fingers! http://worldexplor.blogspot.com/2007/10/...
its considered a percussion cusse you dont put your hands on a string on a piano do u noooooooooo
It is a percussion instrument.
I believe if you had to choose it would be classified under percussion because the movement you make is hitting the keys. You don't touch the strings.
Also, it's little hammers hitting the strings, not plucking them, which is a percussive action. Compare it to using mallets on a metalaphone.
it is in the percussion family of instruments
Because sound is produced on a piano by a hammer striking a string it is considered a percussion instrument. Percussion instruments are any instruments that produce sound by striking with an object. So even though it contains strings it is a percussion instrument due to how it produces sound.
percussion. keyboards are percussion instruments
Woah! This got everyone exercised! <vbg> Given that this is the instrument that has defined my life, the question's choice-of-two premise is false (no offense): the pianoforte is sui generis, one of a kind which, among other things, has always been recognised in, for example, its position in a score, in the same way that an organ or a celeste is uniquely itself as regards its functional role. We are in no way part of the 'kitchen' that is the domain of percussionists, and we can hardly sit on the concertmaster's/leader's lap either. So, answering the headline Q bluntly, it would have to be, for these reasons, 'No'. :-)
Both, string intsruments are consider to be hiting the strings, piano hit strings to in order to make a sound, but be carefull, piano is way different than a keyboard.
great question...i've been to several master classes and ALL of the speakers have described the piano as a Percussion instrument...I, for one, agree. The piano DOES have strings, but the sound of the instrument would not be produced if it weren't for the hammers that struck the strings inside...
It is percussion and the hammer hits the strings inside the piano!
string
i think its supposed to be both
string
i would say string
but its foramlly in the keyboard field
It is considered a woodwind.
for some reason, its a string instument
a string instrument if its a classical piano, but a percussion if its a keyboard!
I always thought string.
And someone told me awhile ago, percussion.
Because it rises up to strike the key, which makes the note ring.
But since it has strings.. I guess it's both?
if it is a grand piano then it is string, but if it is a keyboard it is in a group called synthesizers
Does it have drums? Why you ask percussion? Look inside do you see any drums??
So what if the strings are hit, lord god almighty.