Impressions from playing at PAX

[LoopyChew]

It depends on if you use the hammer or the string to define it. I'm pretty sure neither is wrong.

He's basically right. It's both.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you today an 'istoric event of unprecedented proportions.

[osteofight]

a keyboard/piano is also considered a string instrument.............

I thought about whether keys are classified as strings or not as I was typing my post. I decided to roll with it because piano=strings but keyboards=not necessarily strings. What's onscreen in RB3 definitely doesn't run on strings .

[HMXMister_Game]

"Q: Is the piano a string instrument or a percussion instrument?
A: The piano is really a "hybrid"--a combination of two types. It's a string instrument because the musical tones originate in the strings; and it's also a percussion instrument, because the strings are set into vibration by being struck with hammers. To be historically correct, it's classified as a "keyed zither" by musicologists."

http://pianoeducation.org/pnopnfaq.html

[Cipher_Peon]

All I know about pianos is that there are black keys and white keys and noises come out when you press them.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

All I know about pianos is that there are black keys and white keys and noises come out when you press them.

That's sadly more than you knew about guitars.


"How can you tell it's righty?"

[Cipher_Peon]

I still don't know the answer to that.

And to think I used to play the piano pretty well back in the day. Too bad I lost all ability to read sheet music.

[Lowlander2]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you today an 'istoric event of unprecedented proportions.

Come now, my dear boy. In the words of Nazareth, I ain't so blind I can't see.

[FujiSkunk]

I still don't know the answer to that.

A guitar is meant to be played with the fattest, lowest strings up top, and the thinnest, highest strings on bottom. On a guitar that is otherwise perfectly symmetric, which way you have to hold the guitar to make the strings line up properly dictates whether that guitar is a righty or lefty.

On guitars that aren't perfectly symmetric there are other clues, but even on those the fat strings still will be physically above the thin strings.

[tnevaker]

"Q: Is the piano a string instrument or a percussion instrument?
A: The piano is really a "hybrid"--a combination of two types. It's a string instrument because the musical tones originate in the strings; and it's also a percussion instrument, because the strings are set into vibration by being struck with hammers. To be historically correct, it's classified as a "keyed zither" by musicologists."

http://pianoeducation.org/pnopnfaq.html

so then, it's drums in center, then strings to the right and left, then keyed zither parts at the edges.