electric piano

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument keyboard. Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are converted into electronic signals by pickups. Unlike the synthesizer, electric piano is an electronic instrument, but electro. The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late twenties, was one of the first electric piano grand Neo-Bechstein, 1929. Possibly the first model without strings was the "Vivi-Tone Clavier" of Lloyd Loar.

The popularity of the electric piano began to grow in the late fifties, reaching its peak during the seventies. Then they began to be replaced by synthesizers capable of sounds like the piano, without the disadvantages of mechanical moving parts. Many models were designed for use at home or school, or to replace a heavy non-amplified piano on stage, while others were designed for use in piano labs in schools or universities for teaching several students simultaneously, with hearing aids.

Yamaha electric pianos, Baldwin, Kawai are grand pianos and upright pianos with real strings and hammers. These models have a traditional box of resonance, the others have no cash, and more like a solid body electric guitar. In the Yamaha pianos, Baldwin and Kawai, vibration of the strings is converted into an electrical signal from pickups under the bridge. Help instill instruments use a set of electromagnetic pads fixed to the frame of the instrument. All these instruments have a character similar to that of an acoustic piano.

The Wurlitzer electric pianos use flat steel tabs struck by felt hammers. The tabs fit a metal plate with comb and plate tabs and form a single system for collecting electrostatic or capacitive, using a DC voltage of 170 V. This system produces a very distinctive sound, sweet and vibraphone-like, when the keys are played softly, and emit a hollow resonance when the keys are struck. The tabs are tuned mass by adding or removing a piece of solder at the free end of the tongue. Replacement tabs are equipped with a slight excess solder, and the user is required to file excess solder gradually until, by trial and error, does the correct pitch. The Columbia Electric piano (also called Master) uses a system similar to these tabs Wurlitzer.

The Electric Piano has tuning forks hammered refers to the element that has two vibrating parts, although visually it has little in common with traditional forks. In the Fender Rhodes instruments, percussive portion of the fingerboard is a kind of barbed wire steel rigid. The other part of the fingerboard, parallel and adjacent to the spike, is the Tone bar, a sturdy steel rod that acts as a resonator and ads sustain to the sound. The prong is equipped with a spring which is movable along its length for varying the pitch.