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TheBosendorfer factory was established in 1828 by Ignaz Bosendorfer in Vienna, Austria. Bsendorfer pianos are regarded as one of the very best makers of the instrument. They are often found on the concert platform though, they are rare in the UK (perhaps one for every hundred Steinways); You can use the dates and serials listed below to help date your piano. To find your serial number of your piano please see our find your serial number page.

This page will help you determine the age of your older Kawai acoustic piano. The first step is to find the serial number of your instrument. The serial number identifies the year an instrument was manufactured and is the key to all future warranty service and repair (if needed). Its location varies depending on the type of instrument.

For Kawai upright pianos, the serial number is located in one of two places: (1) the top right side of the iron plate (near the tuning pins) or (2) at the top center of the plate between the bass and treble sections. You can normally find it easily by lifting the piano lid. For Kawai acoustic hybrid pianos (K200- ATX3 and K300 AURES), the serial number is located at the top center of the iron plate under the Kawai logo.

The serial numbers listed are the approximate first number produced for the year shown. Starting letters other than A or F should be disregarded. Serial numbers for different models are not always sequential, so actual dates could vary.

Hang in there, Paula! : ) By the way, the numbers are nothing more than arbitrary names for the notes. The music is found by organizing them in meaningful context and to associate each name with its unique sound feeling in the key. The lessons on solfege should be able to tie it all together. Cheers!

On an acoustic piano, the model number and serial number are stamped on the frame of the piano. On an upright piano, you will find the model number on the right hand side of the frame, and the serial number is stamped on the frame around the middle of the piano, normally in line with the middle octave of the piano. Grand pianos are similar, with the model number being on the right hand side of the front of the frame, in line with the 7th octave. The serial number can be found just to the left of the model number in most cases.

Inversions are notated in a similar way to slash chords. The number before the slash indicates the scale degree on which to build your chord. The number after the slash indicates the scale degree to be played with the left hand as a bass note.

Slash chords are notated the same way as inverted chords. So a G chord in C Major with an E in the bass would look like this: 5/3. (G is the fifth note of the C Major scale, and E is the third note of the C Major scale.)

The La Touche Musicale learning app offers more than 2,500 songs to play easily on the piano. Connect your piano to your device and learn to play them at your own pace while having fun.

At the end of each song, we will also show you a tutorial video to learn how to play the piano notes in addition to the numbers we give you. This will give you a visual support to help you learn faster.

You can also find the piano notes tutorial of Ode to Joy in our series of articles dedicated to the best piano songs. If you like pieces like this, you might enjoy our articles about the most beautiful classical piano music compositions and the best piano songs by Beethoven.

Use the tutorial below to familiarize yourself with the notes of the song. Try to pay close attention to the note beats and the overall rhythm of the piano song in order to play in the right tempo and with the right coordination of your two hands:

Originally founded by piano builder Eduard Seiler in Eastern Europe, Seiler has been producing pianos since 1849. By the 1920s, Seiler was the largest piano manufacturer in all of Eastern Europe. After forced nationalization by the Polish government in 1945, the Seiler family fled Poland and would re-establish Seiler in Denmark by the mid-1950s, before finally settling in Germany in 1962. Seiler soon after developed a strong reputation for quality, German craftsmanship. Seiler continued to produce pianos in German and remained under family control until 2008 when the company was sold to Korean piano manufacturer Samick, who continues to own and operate Seiler today.

The serial numbers on Seiler uprights are located under the lid, stamped onto the metal plate. On Seiler grands, the serial numbers are located at the front of the piano, also stamped on the metal plate.

SE Seiler pianos are fully handcrafted in Germany, with high quality materials and superb attention to detail. ED Seiler instruments are built with the same scale designs and specifications of the German pianos, but are made in Indonesia.

A piano keyboard has 88 keys. The number of strings depends on the model, but is usually around 230. For the tenor and treble notes, three strings are strung for each key, and for bass notes, the number of strings per note decreases from three, to two, and then to one as you approach the lowest bass notes.

In addition, the strings become shorter in length going from low-pitched notes to high. The thickness of the string changes in steps, and the higher the pitch of the note, the thinner the string. Strings for bass notes are wound with copper wire, while strings for tenor and treble notes use bare wire and are not wound.

The three strings for middle pitch and high pitch notes are not only intended to increase the volume during play, but also enrich the quality of the sound.

Even though the three strings that correspond to the same note are hit by one hammer, the point at which the hammer makes contact and the positions of supports vary between the strings, so the three strings do not oscillate in exactly the same way, bringing life to the reverberation of the strings after they have been hit and a rich, full quality to the sound.

Let's compare the sound when variation in the vibrations of the strings have been deliberately introduced.

With one of the strings tuned to A at 440 hertz, example one has the other two strings tuned 1.5 cents higher and lower, example two has them each at an interval of 1.0 cents, and the third example has them each differing by 0.5 cents. Example four has the three strings tuned to the same 440 hertz frequency.

One cent is equal to the difference in frequency for one hundredth of a semitone interval on the equal temperament scale.

The examples above use an artificial piano sound with exaggerated pitch interval, in order to make it easier to identify the difference in the reverberation of the strings after they have been struck.

Quantifiable differences in the piano sound can be identified depending on how the vibrations of the three strings vary.

Professional piano tuners are able to discern even more subtle distinctions in tone by ear, in order to tune the instrument to produce the richest quality of sound.

The way individual strings are designed also enriches the tone. A bridge supports one end of the string. For strings of bass and middle range the other end is supported by an agraffe, and for treble notes, by a part called a bearing. The segment of the string between these supports is called the "speaking length." For the A note in the exact center of the compass, the string will vibrate at a frequency of 440 hertz, i.e., 440 times per second. In the treble section of the compass, resonating segments at the front and back of the string are called the front duplex and back duplex respectively. These segments vibrate sympathetically with the speaking length, and increase the attractiveness of the sound. With no resonating segments at all, the tone is less rich.

The piano that Bartolomeo Cristofori first invented in Italy had only 54 keys. As piano music developed and evolved, the keyboard compass was gradually expanded in response to requests from composers who sought a broader potential for expression. By the 1890s, today's modern keyboard had become established with 88 keys spanning 7 octaves (from 2A to C5; 27.5 Hz to 4,186 Hz*). The human ear can hear sounds in the range from approximately 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but the upper limit of frequencies that the human brain can discriminate is at the very most around 4,000 Hz. Even if the compass were to be expanded by increasing the number of keys on the piano, to the human ear, the extra notes at the bass end would become nothing more than a rumbling noise, and the added treble notes would be heard as an unpleasant dissonant noise with no sense of being in a tonal range, and thus, musically, would be almost meaningless. Boesendorfer is making 97-key pianos with nine additional keys in the bass segment of the keyboard (2C to C5). However, the strings for these nine keys in the lowest bass segment are really only there to provide a richer sound when other keys are played by resonating with them. In reality, the extra keys themselves are almost never played directly.

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