| A piano is a musical instrument that is classified as a | | | | - They do not necessitate tuning. |
| keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending | | | | - They usually manufacture several different piano |
| on the system of categorization used. Playing the | | | | timbres. |
| piano is wide-spread in western music for solo | | | | - They integrate MIDI implementation and have extra |
| performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, | | | | features to aid in learning and composition. |
| and is also trendy as an abet for composing and | | | | - They embrace headphone output and have a |
| rehearsal. Materials used for pianos are strings, pin | | | | transposition feature. |
| blocks, strings, plates and soundboard.Pianos also have | | | | When a key is struck on an acoustic instrument, digital |
| pedals. | | | | pianos fabricate overtones that reverberate around |
| They are of three types: | | | | the room creating a sound that no digital instrument |
| - Damper pedal | | | | can accurately capture. Today's digital pianos are so |
| - Soft pedal | | | | good that most listeners can not tell the difference |
| - Sostenuto pedal | | | | between a "live" piano and a digital one. Add to that |
| A digital piano is a modern electronic musical | | | | the fact that they are the most inexpensive of the |
| instrument designed to serve primarily as a substitute | | | | kinds of pianos you can buy and you've got an |
| to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play as | | | | instrument that's hard to beat. Digital piano |
| well as sound produced. Digital pianos are also | | | | manufacturers are getting better and better at |
| premeditated to look like an acoustic piano. While digital | | | | duplicating the tone of real acoustic pianos. But no |
| pianos may plunge short of the genuine article in feel | | | | matter how well the piano sound is sampled, it will |
| and sound, they nevertheless have many advantages | | | | always sound digital. The acoustic sound is far superior |
| over normal pianos: | | | | to that of a digital piano. Due to portability, economical |
| - They are relatively inexpensive and are considerably | | | | and MIDI capabilities piano and keyboard players |
| lighter. | | | | choose digital pianos over their acoustic counterparts. |