pianos

Big grand pianos are not particularly transportable and organs have been designed for specific buildings; why is it that larger pianos like this don't exist as a class?

Because NYC is crowded, not many people have pianos in their homes -- let's say one in fifty.

Chopin's nocturne op 48 1 is not difficult because pianos discourage it, it's difficult because it's difficult.

Re: piano - for most use cases, mid-to-high range digital pianos are more than good enough nowadays.

The intervals are tuned slightly bigger than it would dictate, to accommodate pianos' slightly inharmonic overtone series.

Peter Shickele used it on his parody album Two Pianos are Better than One which came out in 1994.

Some of the newer electric pianos will even illuminate the keys in the correct order.

Let's double that to account for the schools and concert halls, so 160,000 pianos.

Non-pro treadmills are like pianos in that some people will just give them away.

Same-shaped notes would occupy more space (unless you make them smaller than white notes, which would be uncomfortable) so either you get way bigger pianos (as if they were small) or pianos with less range.

Compared to almost all other instruments pianos are ideally suited to sheet music.

It does seem like it's a buyer's market right now for pianos, but a decent piano still costs a considerable amount of money.

The invention of player pianos led to the foundation of what is known as "mechanical royalties" in the music industry.