string or purcussion?

dottylotty23 | 20:11 Sat 09th Dec 2006 | Music

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please can anyone settle an argument? Is a piano a string or purcussion instrument?

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cliff richard

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Leo1972

Although it obviously uses strings, it is a percussion instrument (it also incorporates wood, but isn't a woodwind instrument....!).

For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion_instru ment

sean1987

a piano can be put into both catgories, Technicaly its a percussion, because you hit something to make a noise, where as strings you use a siliding friction to make the noise,

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thanks to you both. This clears it up. Thanks

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