Can a piano fall through the floor?

The first is, can the floor hold the piano without collapsing? The answer is almost certainly yes. Consider that a grand piano weighs perhaps 800 pounds. It is also about 5 fee wide, and, depending on the piano about 6 to 8 feet long.

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I live in one of those houses; it is both our home -- and a museum. There are really three different problems. The first is, can the floor hold the piano without collapsing? The answer is almost certainly yes. Consider that a grand piano weighs perhaps 800 pounds. It is also about 5 fee wide, and, depending on the piano about 6 to 8 feet long. That means that its weight is spread over about 20 square feet -- give or take -- for about 40 pounds per square foot. It would be very very rare for the floor structure to be so weak that it couldn't take that (you, standing on one foot, are at least double that!). An upright puts more load on the floor, though -- but is usually placed against a wall. So shear strength shouldn't be an issue. The second is the point loading of the legs of the piano. Each leg or a grand is 200 pounds, more or less. If the floor is at least 1 inch boards (most floors, even in old houses, are two layers, each 3/4 inch to an inch), and the joists are not more than 16 to 20 inches apart, it should be OK (assuming the boards aren't rotted!). However, if the wood or other flooring material is soft, you might be well advised to put big caster holders (my grand is on 4 inch diameter glass holders) to spread the load so as not make a dent in the flooring. (Ladies' high heels are a worse threat, though). What may be a problem is the third -- deflection -- springiness. More noticeable with the upright -- it will bow towards you as you walk towards it, which is nice of it but a bit disconcerting. This may or may not be a problem for you; the only cure for it is to substantially increase the stiffness of the floor. hfmadopter's suggestions can help.

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What is it called when two pianists play together?

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According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, there are two kinds of piano duet: "those for two players at one instrument, and those in which each of the two pianists has an instrument to themself." In American usage the former is often referred to as "piano four hands".[1] Grove notes that the one-piano duet has the larger repertory, but has come to be regarded as a modest, domestic form of music-making by comparison with "the more glamorous two-piano duet".[2] The latter is more often referred to as a piano duo.[3] The piano duet came to popularity in the second half of the 18th century. Mozart played duets as a child with his sister, and later wrote sonatas for four hands at one piano; Schubert was another composer who composed for the genre, notably with his Fantasy in F minor, D. 940. Jane Bellingham in The Oxford Companion to Music lists other composers who wrote piano duets, including Brahms, Dvořák, Grieg, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartók.[3] In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries French piano duets included Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, Fauré's Dolly Suite and Ravel's Ma mère l'oye.[2]