{"id":31933,"date":"2018-03-29T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=31933"},"modified":"2018-03-29T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:23:53","slug":"music-history-the-85-key-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-history-the-85-key-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, history: the 85-key piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Seeing an antique can trigger self-tutoring: the tutor shares a find.<\/h1>\n<p>A few days back my son, visiting a historic site, was invited to play the piano. After awhile he pointed out that it starts &#8211; and ends &#8211; with an A key.<\/p>\n<p>The pianos that I&#8217;ve seen, as both my sons pointed out, start with a bass A but end with a treble C. Our piano at home is like so. Such pianos have 88 keys.<\/p>\n<p>The antique one that starts with a bass A, but ends with a treble A as well, three keys earlier than I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; is it common? Well, common enough, especially among pianos from the 1800s, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livingpianos.com\/tag\/85-keys\/\">livingpianos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing an antique can trigger self-tutoring: the tutor shares a find. A few days back my son, visiting a historic site, was invited to play the piano. After awhile he pointed out that it starts &#8211; and ends &#8211; with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-history-the-85-key-piano\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music, history: the 85-key piano<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2209,465,1],"tags":[2822,2821],"class_list":["post-31933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-a-piano-that-starts-and-ends-on-a","tag-a-piano-with-85-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31933"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31945,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31933\/revisions\/31945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}