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How Long Does It Take To "Speak Music"?
How did you get so good at speaking English? Duh? By speaking it! To start off you were immersed in language. Your parents said "hello little sweetheart", but you also heard your siblings fight and overheard adult conversations, or the news in the background. Well, with music, that bit, learning to recognise and understand, you have already passed with flying colours! You have been exposed to lots of styles and songs, you know exactly what you like and you can hear instantaneously if there is a …
How pianos became what they are today
A piano is an incredible invention! Its design has been perfected over hundreds of years and continues to be improved upon even now.
Before humans had anything recognisable as a piano, we had the harpsichord and hammered dulcimer.
The harpsichord is like a piano in that it has a keyboard and strings, but the strings are plucked instead of hammered so it produces a very different sound.
The hammered dulcimer is like a piano because, as the name suggests, the strings are hammered. This produces…