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Awkwardmollusk
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The Kind-Hearted
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 9:33 AM Post #191
Me:YOU'RRRRRE HEEEEEERE!! THERE'S NOOOOOTHING I FEAR!!

Wall: *Passive*

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Orcastration
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 9:43 AM Post #192
....the nicest guy on the bus stole my best friend? Not quite riht...




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Dragongem23
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 10:36 AM Post #193
My moms lamp left me a penguin


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Username116504
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The Sweet Tooth
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 12:09 PM Post #194
I'm kising my waterbottle (totaly normal, cuz it's like i'm drinking)

@next person:

tap your freind on the left twice, and say good luck

(then tell him after that you're playing mama seeks)
Edited By Username116504 on 3/26/2019 at 12:10 PM.
Orcastration
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Fishy
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 1:30 PM Post #195
Did that. The friend was aslrep.




......





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Fernwolf
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Majestic Green Thumb
Joined: 3/3/2019
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Posted: 3/26/2019 at 2:23 PM Post #196
such a great mushroom your better than my computer monitor

next: kiss the thing next to you and then slap it
Thunderclancat28
Level 70
Warden of Umbra
Joined: 10/12/2018
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Posted: 3/31/2019 at 10:22 AM Post #197
Yum my drink. But i don't want to slap it...I'd knock it over.

@Nextperson
Look to your left. Look up the first thing you see and post its history.
Orcastration
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Fishy
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Posted: 3/31/2019 at 11:23 AM Post #198
(Ok....)

A COmplete History on the Piano (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano)

History


Early piano replica by the modern builder Paul McNulty, after Walter & Sohn, 1805
The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments. Pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches. The first string instruments with struck strings were the hammered dulcimers,[5] which were used since the Middle Ages in Europe. During the Middle Ages, there were several attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings.[6] By the 17th century, the mechanisms of keyboard instruments such as the clavichord and the harpsichord were well developed. In a clavichord, the strings are struck by tangents, while in a harpsichord, they are mechanically plucked by quills when the performer depresses the key. Centuries of work on the mechanism of the harpsichord in particular had shown instrument builders the most effective ways to construct the case, soundboard, bridge, and mechanical action for a keyboard intended to sound strings.
Invention

The invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori (16551731) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments. Cristofori was an expert harpsichord maker, and was well acquainted with the body of knowledge on stringed keyboard instruments. He used his knowledge of harpsichord keyboard mechanisms and actions to help him to develop the first pianos. It is not known exactly when Cristofori first built a piano. An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698. The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s.[7][8] Cristofori named the instrument un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte ("a keyboard of cypress with soft and loud"), abbreviated over time as pianoforte, fortepiano, and later, simply, piano.[9]
While the clavichord allows expressive control of volume and sustain, it is too quiet for large performances in big halls. The harpsichord produces a sufficiently loud sound, especially when a coupler joins each key to both manuals of a two-manual harpsichord, but it offers no dynamic or accent-based expressive control over each note. A harpsichord cannot produce a variety of dynamic levels from the same keyboard during a musical passage (though a player can use a harpsichord with two manuals to alternate between two different stops [settings on the harpsichord that determine which set of strings sound], which could include a louder stop and a quieter stop). The piano offers the best of both instruments, combining the ability to play loudly and perform sharp accents. The piano can project more during piano concertos and play in larger venues, with dynamic control that permits a range of dynamics, including soft, quiet playing.[8]
Cristofori's great success was solving, with no known prior example, the fundamental mechanical problem of designing a stringed keyboard instrument in which the notes are struck by a hammer. The hammer must strike the string, but not remain in contact with it, because this would damp the sound and stop the string from vibrating and making sound. This means that after striking the string, the hammer must be lifted or raised off the strings. Moreover, the hammer must return to its rest position without bouncing violently, and it must return to a position in which it is ready to play almost immediately after its key is depressed so the player can repeat the same note rapidly. Cristofori's piano action was a model for the many approaches to piano actions that followed in the next century. Cristofori's early instruments were made with thin strings, and were much quieter than the modern piano, but they were much louder and with more sustain in comparison to the clavichordthe only previous keyboard instrument capable of dynamic nuance via the weight or force with which the keyboard is played.


Cristofori's new instrument remained relatively unknown until an Italian writer, Scipione Maffei, wrote an enthusiastic article about it in 1711, including a diagram of the mechanism, that was translated into German and widely distributed.[8] Most of the next generation of piano builders started their work based on reading this article. One of these builders was Gottfried Silbermann, better known as an organ builder. Silbermann's pianos were virtually direct copies of Cristofori's, with one important addition: Silbermann invented the forerunner of the modern sustain pedal, which lifts all the dampers from the strings simultaneously. This allows the pianist to sustain the notes that they have depressed even after their fingers are no longer pressing down the keys. This innovation enabled pianists to, for example, play a loud chord with both hands in the lower register of the instrument, sustain the chord with the sustain pedal, and then, with the chord continuing to sound, relocate their hands to a different register of the keyboard in preparation for a subsequent section.


Grand piano by Louis Bas of Villeneuve-ls-Avignon, 1781. Earliest French grand piano known to survive; includes an inverted wrestplank and action derived from the work of Bartolomeo Cristofori (ca. 1700) with ornately decorated soundboard.
Silbermann showed Johann Sebastian Bach one of his early instruments in the 1730s, but Bach did not like the instrument at that time, claiming that the higher notes were too soft to allow a full dynamic range. Although this earned him some animosity from Silbermann, the criticism was apparently heeded. Bach did approve of a later instrument he saw in 1747, and even served as an agent in selling Silbermann's pianos. "Instrument: piano et forte genandt"a reference to the instrument's ability to play soft and loudwas an expression that Bach used to help sell the instrument when he was acting as Silbermann's agent in 1749.
Piano-making flourished during the late 18th century in the Viennese school, which included Johann Andreas Stein (who worked in Augsburg, Germany) and the Viennese makers Nannette Streicher (daughter of Stein) and Anton Walter. Viennese-style pianos were built with wood frames, two strings per note, and leather-covered hammers. Some of these Viennese pianos had the opposite coloring of modern-day pianos; the natural keys were black and the accidental keys white.[11] It was for such instruments that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his concertos and sonatas, and replicas of them are built in the 21st century for use in authentic-instrument performance of his music. The pianos of Mozart's day had a softer, more ethereal tone than 21st century pianos or English pianos, with less sustaining power. The term fortepiano now distinguishes these early instruments (and modern re-creations) from later pianos.


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Awkwardmollusk
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The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 4/30/2016
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Posted: 3/31/2019 at 12:11 PM Post #199
....Okay. My sister's play tent is now the former president.
...Neat.

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Fernwolf
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Majestic Green Thumb
Joined: 3/3/2019
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Posted: 3/31/2019 at 12:12 PM Post #200
Great my mom is burning
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