Piano
Who doesn't love a good ol' piano? It's a fun little instrument that usually comes with 88 keys, 88 hammers, and 88 sets of strings. Biologically speaking, it's every instrument in one! The strings make it a string instrument, their metal appearance makes it a brass instrument, the wooden body makes it a woodwind instrument, and the way the hammers strike the strings make it a percussion instrument. You could even say it's the best instrument of all time! But the thing is, you haven't seen the best one yet...
Here on The Wiki Camp 2, we came up with the Wiki Piano to make things more musical here. Despite this, it doesn't necessarily look the best compared to your typical grand piano, but that's OK.
Enjoy!
| The Wiki Piano |
|---|
| C |
| B |
| A♯/A♭ |
| A |
| G♯/A♭ |
| G |
| F♯/G♭ |
| F |
| E |
| D♯/E♭ |
| D |
| C♯/D♭ |
| C |
| B |
| A♯/B♭ |
| A |
| G♯/A♭ |
| G |
| F♯/G♭ |
| F |
| E |
| D♯/E♭ |
| D |
| C♯/D♭ |
| C |
Obtaining
To make a Wiki Piano, all you need to do is do a little coding with CSS. It sounds easy, but let me tell you that there's a specific way the keys are arranged. The white keys correspond to the notes of A-G, while the black keys correspond to the sharps/flats except C♭ (aka. B) and E♯ (aka. F).
Drawbacks
Wiki Pianos are only playable using a mouse, although the space key can also be used, but not the others. Either way, it would be impossible to play chords on this Wiki Piano, unless there's another language besides CSS.
Comparison with other Wiki Instruments
The Wiki Guitar would be a bit more complex than the Wiki Piano for many reasons; however, using columns would be good enough, but then you still wouldn't have the body of the guitar unless you make pixel art within these columns, but it would still be hard to accomplish such a feat.
Wiki Zithers could also work, as the rows would represent the strings, just like what I suggested for the Wiki Guitar.
Origins
WIP
The piano's origins date back to the hammered dulcimer, a usually trapezoidal zither that is played by striking the strings with small mallets called hammers. Hammered dulcimers might have first appeared in Iran, where they call it the santur. Since then, it has been adapted into various other cultures throughout Eurasia, giving it many different names and versions. The English word dulcimer stems from Latin dulcis (sweet) and Greek melos (song).
Although the mechanism of the hammered dulcimer has been adapted into the modern day piano, those of earlier keyboard instruments, such as the clavichord, revolved around plucking the strings as opposed to striking them with hammers. Both the clavichord and the hammered dulcimer share a common ancestor—the psaltery, a plucked string instrument whose origins date back to Ancient Greece. It is considered the archetype of the zither family—instruments with strings stretched across a thin body—as a whole.
The clavichord, with its notable rectangular case and usually having a four-octave range, first appeared in the 14th century, with the earliest references probably being the mentions of the clavicimbalum and the clavichordium in the 1404 German poem "Der Minne Regeln". Historically, it was a rather quiet instrument, usually used for practice or composition and not being loud enough for large performances. It was usually found in German-speaking countries, Spain, and Scandinavia.
Another early keyboard instrument was the virginal (its etymology is obscure), dating back to the 15th century, probably making it the oldest member of the harpsichord family. The virginal's case is usually rectangular, like the clavichord, yet its strings run almost completely parallel to the keyboard. Strings are plucked either on one end or near the middle, each providing their own unique tones.
Around the late Middle Ages came the harpsichord, one of the most popular instruments in Renaissance and Baroque music. Usually, it has two sets of strings, each providing its own tone, much like the virginal.
- Spinet
- Bartolomeo Cristofori's fortepianos
- 19th century fortepianos
- First upright pianos
- Square grand piano
- 19th century grand pianos
- Modern grand piano
- Modern upright piano
- Rhodes piano
- Digital piano
- MIDI keyboard
Last, but certainly not least, the Wiki Piano's prototype was only invented a month ago and is still undergoing testing. It is set to release in May 2023.
Better alternatives
- Grab a grand piano and play it.
- Grab an upright piano and play it.
- Grab a digital piano and play it.
- Grab a MIDI keyboard and play it.
- Go online and look up "online piano".
- Breed a Quibble so they can play their piano for you.
- You can either teleport to Cold Island, Air Island, Water Island, Fire Oasis, Shugabush Island, Tribal Island, the Colossingum, Composer Island, or Gold Island to tame one and take it, or breed a Toe Jammer and Tweedle before breeding them to make the Quibble, as the latter is a combination of the Toe Jammer and Tweedle's respective elements—water and air.
- Grab any device that plays audio.
- If you're a die-hard Inanimate Insanity fan, you can grab MePhone4 and/or MePad to easily create a dazzling performance.
- Go on YouTube and type in any song you can think of.
- You'll probably find some interactive piano videos if you're still interested in playing.
Songs
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