Why is the piano so hard to master?

Most instruments/singers must read notes in a certain range, because that instrument or vocalist can only handle a certain number of notes in their specific range. The piano has an 88-key range, which is a massive range of notes to have memorized.

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Playing the piano is a very rewarding feeling. It can be a great way to relieve stress for yourself, and listeners who may be listening. To be able to play the piano proficiently one must practice a considerable amount. This may be because the reading music and having the hand coordination for piano music is highly difficult. Below are five reasons why the piano is a difficult instrument.

1 - Pianist must read two clefs

Reading one clef at a time is hard enough considering there is rhythm, dynamics, and note reading all going on at the same time. On piano it is all that times two. It takes pianist years to learn how to read both clefs at a high level. Therefore sight reading may be the most difficult on piano, because it really is sight double reading.

2 – You must read multiple notes at once

Not only are you reading two clefs, but because you have multiple fingers you must read multiple notes at once. Sometimes there is five notes in the bass clef and five notes in the treble clef, so the pianist must read 10 notes all at once. Learning this skill is great for the brain! 3 – There are 88 notes on a piano that you must be able to read Most instruments/singers must read notes in a certain range, because that instrument or vocalist can only handle a certain number of notes in their specific range. The piano has an 88-key range, which is a massive range of notes to have memorized.

4 – Difficult Hand Coordination

Being able to control two different hands each with five fingers and being to control them to do exactly what you want key by key during a fast song takes serious hand coordination. Practicing in general, but particularly practicing scales, and doing piano exercises can help overcome these difficulties.

5 – Pianist Also Use Their Foot

To be able to create the sustain echo sound on the piano a pianist must push down the sustain pedal. This is another part of the body a pianist must control to get the sound they want. The sustain pedal is used in legato songs and can create a beautiful sound.

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What type of piano did Mozart play?

The fortepiano The fortepiano, from around 1782, was used by Mozart for both composition and performance from 1785 until his death in 1791. The piano was originally made by Anton Walter, one of the most famous Viennese piano makers of Mozart's time.

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Listen to Mozart played on Mozart’s VERY OWN piano

By Amy MacKenzie

Please watch this amazing video of pianist Robert Levin playing Mozart's piano sonatas on Mozart's ACTUAL PIANO. Last year, pianist and musicologist Robert Levin was announced as the first Hogwood Fellow of the Academy of Ancient Music. So, we filmed him playing on Mozart's very own instrument.

This is the piano. Isn't it beautiful?

The fortepiano, from around 1782, was used by Mozart for both composition and performance from 1785 until his death in 1791. The piano was originally made by Anton Walter, one of the most famous Viennese piano makers of Mozart's time. It is two octaves shorter than a modern piano, and is much lighter and smaller than modern pianos, weighing only 85kg. It's also much smaller than a modern piano, at just 2.23m long. It can currently be found in Salzburg, where Robert Levin is using it to record Mozart's piano sonatas. “The voyage and discovery of playing on period instruments is to move in a world – physical, emotional and aesthetic – that is inhabited by the geniuses that wrote this music. It brings us very, very close to them,” said Levin. “So sitting down at Mozart’s piano, sitting down at an organ which Bach played himself, you understand things about the weight of the keys going down and the repetition and the balance in sound. “And all of these things bring you very, very close to the music and make you say 'A-ha, that’s why it’s written that way', which is not the kind of thing you’re going to get if you’re playing on the standard instruments that are being manufactured today.”

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