can anyone tell me if a piano is a percussion instrument or a stringed instrument? ive heard both, but read that piano is percussion. most people just dont believe that. what do you guys think
Hard question, really i think its both. There are hammers that strike strings, usually when people think of a string instrument though they think of using either a bow or your fingers to articulate though. So, if I had to choose itd be percussion.
yeah likewise percussion its one of those midway instruments...like the sax...part reed,part brass....
I think piano is really in its own category of musical instrument. I may be wrong here, but percussion is not a melodic sound, and a keyboard is a melodic instrument, therefore I dont think it can be percussion. Keyboards and pianos, in my opinion, dont belong in any string or percussion category.
Piano has no definate classification as either percussion or string. Some call it percussion, some call it string. It's debatable. Many say that it is a class of its own called 'piano'.
Piano From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A piano is a musical instrument classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of classification used