World Piano Day 2023

2023-03-29

Pianos are keyboard instruments with strings which are struck by felt covered wooden hammers said to be invented by one Bartolomeo Cristofori on or about the year 1700.

I fancy myself a piano tinker. I don't really play, but "play at" tone poems and the like. I have not had formal lessons but have had incidents where my playing had people wondering ...

I use an 88 weighted key hammer action digital piano. I don't go for the abbreviated keysets nor the 'synthesizer' key actions.

Today is World Piano Day. It goes down on the 88th day of the year and corresponds to the number of keys on a full sized keyboard.

This year, it happens on March 29.

World Piano Day was founded by a group people interested in the instrument and it's qualities and possibilities.