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🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. |
0:25.3 | We are so excited about this episode. |
0:28.6 | The topic we're covering today is one that I've been interested in learning more about for a long time. |
0:35.3 | This week we are getting curious about pianos. We love music and we love playing |
0:40.9 | the piano. I've been playing the piano since I was even younger than Olivia is today. And these days, |
0:48.4 | I'm teaching Olivia how to play some songs on the piano and she really enjoys it. If you look at a piano, you will see keys. |
0:57.2 | Not the type of keys you use to open the door. Certainly not. The keys on a piano are things you |
1:03.8 | push to play a note on the piano. There are lots of keys on the piano, 88 of them to be exact. Some of the piano keys are white, and other keys are black. |
1:16.5 | Olivia, what's the question of the week? |
1:19.5 | The question of the week is, how many black keys are there on a piano? |
1:24.1 | While you are thinking about the answer, let's learn a bit about piano history. |
1:29.3 | The piano was invented around the year 1700. |
1:33.3 | That's more than 300 years ago. |
1:36.3 | It was invented by a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy. |
1:42.3 | He was trying to make an instrument better than the harpsichord. A harpsichord |
1:47.8 | was an instrument that already existed at the time. It also happens to look a lot like a piano. |
1:54.3 | I noticed the word harp was in the word harpsichord. That's a great observation. If you've ever |
2:00.3 | seen someone play a harp, the person plays it by plucking at the strings |
2:05.8 | to make beautiful sounds. |
2:08.0 | When someone plays a harpsichord, the strings are also plucked, but instead of being plucked |
2:13.5 | by fingers, they are plucked by quills. |
2:23.7 | No matter how hard or soft you push the key on the harpsichord, the volume always stays the same. |
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