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Lists vary, but piano, guitar and violin are perennial favorites. Musical instruments are often separated into five categories: woodwind, brass, string, keyboard and percussion.

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Lists vary, but piano, guitar and violin are perennial favorites

Musical instruments are often separated into five categories: woodwind, brass, string, keyboard and percussion. Many musicians would add the human voice as a category—and music lovers the world over might be quick to argue that the human voice is the ultimate musical instrument. At last count, nobody knows for sure how many different kinds of musical instruments exist. The Institute of Musical Instrument Technology lists hundreds, from the alphorn to celesta to euphonium to lute to ratchet to viola to zither. Three instruments—piano, guitar and violin—are routinely included on top 10 lists of the most popular for beginners and professionals alike. The first official piano broke the sound barrier, so to speak, when Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian instrument builder, produced a “harpsichord with soft and loud” in 1698. The oldest known guitar-style instrument, a 3,500-year-old, three-stringed tanbur, belonged to an Egyptian singer-songwriter named Har-Mose. Bowed string instruments in Europe date back to the 9th-century lira of the Byzantine Empire, but the first violins of note originated in northern Italy in the 1530s with luthier, Andrea Amati.

Fast facts about the piano

New pianos need tuning four times a year, twice a year for older instruments

750,000 new pianos are made every year

More than 20 million Americans play piano—not all of them well

Franz Liszt might be the greatest pianist of all time

Martha Argerich Martha Argerich is probably the best-known female pianist of the modern era Pianos come in two basic types: upright and grand, the latter built for faster playing Stretched piano strings in a concert grand exert nearly 30 tons of steely tension

John Lennon’s Steinway Model Z sold for $2.1 million

A piano has 12,000-plus parts with 10,000 of them moving

Fast facts about the violin

Playing the violin consumes 170 calories per hour, more if you’re doing jumping jacks Violin strings were once called catgut even though they were made from sheep innards Modern strings are made from steel and various synthetics and even come plated in silver

Niccolò Paganini might be the greatest violinist of all time

Emilie Autumn Emilie Autumn is probably the best-known female metal violinist of the modern era

Maple, spruce, ebony, willow and rosewood trees provide materials for violins

Electric violins are played by many accomplished violinists

Spiders don’t play violin, but the brown recluse has a violin graphic on its thorax Made in 1741, the Vieuxtemps-Stoutzker reputedly sold for more than $18 million in 2013

Fast facts about the guitar

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Why do deaf people lip read?

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Lipreading is the art of being able to see speech sounds. It is often called speechreading because people use other clues, such as facial expressions, gestures and surroundings, to help them understand what is being said. Lipreading can help people who are hearing impaired to cope better with their hearing loss. Not every word needs to be understood for lipreading to be useful. Other skills can be developed that help a person understand better what is being said.

The benefits of lipreading

Lipreading benefits:

people who can only hear about half of what is said – they will understand more through lipreading. people who previously had normal hearing – lipreading helps them to participate better in conversations. The extent to which lipreading is helpful will depend on each person’s natural aptitude for lipreading and the amount of effort applied.

Limitations of lipreading

Difficulties associated with lipreading include:

normal speech is too fast to lipread easily

many speech movements are not seen

many speech patterns are similar, leading to confusion and doubt

some words look alike, even though they sound different

many people do not speak clearly.

Lipreading cannot make up for the hearing that has been lost. It is not possible for a person to consistently understand everything that is said by lipreading alone.

Learning to lipread

Developing the ability to lipread requires:

practice

patience

perseverance.

Once the ability to lipread has been developed, constant use is required or your skill will decrease.

When speaking to a hearing impaired person

When speaking to a hearing impaired person, it is important that you face them, speak clearly and naturally, and don’t cover your mouth.

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