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Despite its brass body, a saxophone belongs to the woodwind family because its sound begins with a vibrating reed.
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conductorFind to reveal
Leonard Bernstein once led part of a Haydn symphony with facial expressions and eyebrows, keeping his hands still while the orchestra played.
orchestraFind to reveal
Orchestra originally named the dancing space in an ancient Greek theater, long before it meant the musicians seated together.
clarinetFind to reveal
A clarinet's reed comes from cane grass that can grow twenty feet tall, shrinking a towering plant into a delicate musical part.
keyboardFind to reveal
Some old keyboard instruments reversed today's colors, with dark main keys and light raised keys where a piano has black ones.
symphonyFind to reveal
Haydn's Farewell Symphony asks musicians to stop playing and leave one by one, until just two violinists remain.
trumpetFind to reveal
The trumpet has just three valves, yet a skilled player can reach dozens of notes by changing how the lips buzz.
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Opera houses once paid audience members to applaud, so a roaring concert-style reception could include professionals whose job was to sound impressed.
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Classical guitars once used animal-gut strings; nylon later gave players a smoother substitute that didn't come from a sheep.
pianoFind to reveal
The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1700 in Florence, Italy, and its name means soft and loud.
True stories · Vienna, Austria
He could not hear the cheers
On May 7, 1824, a Vienna theater filled to hear the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the one that ends with the Ode to Joy. By then Beethoven was almost completely deaf. He stood beside the conductor, waving his arms and turning pages, but the players had been told to follow the real conductor instead. Accounts recall a moment when the hall erupted in applause, yet Beethoven kept facing the orchestra, hearing none of it. Singer Caroline Unger gently took his arm and turned him around so he could see the crowd waving hats and handkerchiefs. The deaf composer had given the world one of its best loved tunes.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Trivia
How many keys are on a standard full-size piano?
Eighty-eight (52 white and 36 black).
The world's largest pipe organ, in Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, has roughly how many pipes: 3,000, 33,000, or 300,000?
About 33,000 pipes.
Which family do the violin, viola, cello, and double bass all belong to?
The string family (bowed strings).
What do we call the set of five horizontal lines on which music is written?
The staff (or stave).
Famous old violins by which Italian maker have sold for millions of dollars?
Antonio Stradivari (a Stradivarius).
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How many keys are on a standard full-size piano?
Eighty-eight (52 white and 36 black).
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One song around the world
In 2005, music producer Mark Johnson was walking in Santa Monica, California, when he heard a street singer named Roger Ridley performing Stand By Me with astonishing soul. Johnson had an idea: record the same song with musicians all over the world and stitch them together. With a mobile studio, his Playing for Change team traveled for years, adding voices and washboard in New Orleans, drummers and singers in South Africa, players in Europe and beyond, each adding a part to the very same recording. The finished video showed musicians recorded in different places performing as one band. It has been watched well over a hundred million times, a vivid example of music connecting people across distance.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Sources: History.com: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 debuts, May 7, 1824 · Playing for Change: Stand By Me, Song Around the World · Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Pianofortes of Bartolomeo Cristofori · Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ (Wikipedia): world's largest pipe organ
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