The Upper Arlington Music Academy currently offers piano lessons in a variety of methods, from Suzuki to Traditional and a myriad of styles from classical to jazz. The majority of the students at UAMA are piano students.
Availability
We are currently enrolling traditional piano students of all ages. There is a waitlist for Suzuki piano, although all of our teachers incorporate ear-training methods.
Resources
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About Piano
Unlike the vast majority of musical instruments, the piano can actually be traced back to a single inventor, Bertolomeo Cristofari De Francesco. While crude struck string instruments do predate it by large margin, what we know as the piano (then called fortepiano) dates to the late seventeenth century. The piano didn't catch on till nearly twenty years after its invention when Scipione Maffei published an article with diagram of
it in 1711, which allowed multiple parties to manufacture the instrument. When introduced to the piano Johann Sebastian Bach initially didn't like it! He felt that that the higher octaves were too quiet. Today, pianos have a larger range than their predecessors.
The piano belongs in the Chordophone family. Because it uses vibrating strings to produce sounds, the piano is classified as a string instrument. However, since it strikes the strings, it can also be classified as a percussion instrument! And, since it has keys, it can be classified as a keyboard instrument! That's a lot of jobs for one instrument. The keyboard setup of the
piano has been instrumental (no pun intented) in the onset of electronic music, and as such, it has evolved into the modern synthesizer which can emulate, with reasonable accuracy, virtually any instrument!
