All those strings and hammers and moving parts took a lot of inventors and many centuries to develop. Let’s learn about piano history to find out how we got the pianos that we enjoy today. Before the Piano – 1600’s It started way back in the Renaissance, when many new things were ...
When I was 17,I read a quote that went something like:“If you live each day as if it were your last,someday you’11 most certainly be right.”It made a deep on me.and since then, for the past 33 years,I have in the mirror every morning and asked myself:“If today were the...
The sport of climbing as we knew it was invented entirely by us. Rules were as foreign as technique. For all we knew, we were the only climbers on Earth. If you had told us then that someday that there would be over a million climbers—girls even—and that people would practice insid...
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind ...
But, pressing the keys of a piano causes tiny felt-covered hammers to strike the strings inside the instrument, like drumsticks striking the head of a drum.This striking action is why the piano is a percussion instrument instead of a string instrument. ...
Finally -- My NON-MOVIE scary thing was the "Lightning Monsters" I invented in my youth: people-things you could only see in brief, lightning-like glimpses as they got closer to your house. The stuff of pre-sleep nightmares. I had to invent the Mattress -- my mattress -- as a benev...
But, pressing the keys of a piano causes tiny felt-covered hammers to strike the strings inside the instrument, like drumsticks striking the head of a drum. This striking action is why the piano is a percussion instrument instead of a string instrument. Okay, so why is this so important?
When I was young.I wished for a good car and a big house. That was my idea of success. I took all the advanced classes and tried to do well in the exams with my mind set on going to a key school. I just knew that I would somehow become famous and be able