Sunday, September 20, 2020

Easy Piano Classics

I recently started learning some pieces from Easy Piano Classics in The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library.  (I posted a Telemann gavotte last week, and I've already recorded two more pieces.)  The book is divided into periods of music history, and at the beginning of each section, there's a selection of pictures of keyboard instruments from that particular period.  For "The Contemporary Period (1900-present)," one of the instruments is a Pianet N:


I think "electric" is a better adjective to use than "electronic" though.  I like this distinction between the two:  "Try playing the keyboard with the instrument UNPLUGGED from both the mains (if applicable) and any amplification.  If it makes a musical sound (however faint) it IS an electric piano."  Since, according to the user manual, "the Hohner Pianet N has mechanical vibrators (reeds) which are intonated by the keyboard action" and those vibrations are then "converted into electrical vibrations by electrodes," it does fit this definition of "electric piano."