When a musical instrument is played, we can hear sounds in the form of music. Musical instruments have unique sounds that are formed by playing notes, in a variety of ways. So what is a note? What is a recorder and a piano? What are recorder notes in relation to piano notes? Let’s explore.
A note is a signal in music. It tells the musician to do something on his musical instrument to produce a sound of the note name and note length as indicated on the score. The names of the musical notes are ABCDEFG, which are the first seven letters of the alphabet and are called the musical alphabet. The musical alphabet repeats for the note range of the musical instrument. Each of the note names is associated with flats and sharps, for example, A sharp and A flat, B sharp and B flat, etc. Notes are given specific positions on a set of five lines called a staff to indicate which A, B, or C, etc., to play.
Notes vary in the amount of time they sound. They are given names that correspond to a number of times or counts and have different images. The first note lengths that people learn and play are the crotchet (1 beat), the minimum (2 beats), and the semibreve (4 beats). So if a two-beat A is required, the image of the minimum will be placed on the staff at the position of the required A.
Musicians learn the positions and duration of notes while learning their instrument.
Now you need to understand what a recorder and piano are to understand recorder notes in relation to piano notes. A recorder is a wind instrument of different sizes made of wood or plastic. It is like a tube in two or three sections with a helmet and a shaped mouth hole at one end, an open round hole at the other end, and holes. A flute player creates a sound by closing his lips over the mouth opening and blowing air through the tube. Different sounds are made by pressing the fingertips or pads into the holes in various configurations called fingering, so that no air escapes from the required holes. For example, if a musician wants to play an A, then the fingering of one of the A’s is to place the thumb of the left hand in the thumb hole below, and the first two fingers in the two upper holes on the upper side. . The note range of a recorder is greater than two octaves. Music is written on the treble clef staff for most recorder sizes.
A piano is a keyboard instrument with black and white keys. A pianist produces a sound by pressing the keys at different numbers. What happens is that the pressed down key or keys cause a small hammer or hammers to strike tuned strings that cause vibrations and produce a sound. The lower the key, the thicker the string will be. The black keys are repeated in groups of 2 and 3 throughout the entire keyboard. The note names of ABCDEFG are placed on the white keys in relation to the black keys, for example, all C’s are directly to the left of the group of two black keys, therefore when you press this key, the sound of C .. A The piano generally has about seven repeats from A to G, called octaves. The music is written on a large staff consisting of a treble staff joined to the bass staff below, by a line.
Let’s look at the notes on the recorder in relation to the notes on the piano.
1. Note names and note lengths are the same for both instruments.
2. Musical notes are written on the treble staff for most types of recorder and piano. The piano also has notes written on the bass staff. And so the notes of most types of recorders are equivalent to the notes played with the right hand on the piano. Therefore, most recorders use the treble clef and the piano uses the treble clef and the treble clef.
3. The recorder has a smaller note range than the piano, which is> 2 octaves compared to 7 octaves. And so all the notes you play on the recorder can be played on the piano.
4. Both instruments are completely different in appearance, size, sound production, and the actual sound you hear. Recorder sounds are produced when air vibrates through the tube of a recorder. Play different notes by pressing your fingertips into the holes in various settings. Piano sounds are produced when keys are pressed, causing a hammer to strike a tuned string that vibrates. Play different notes by pressing different keys with your fingertips
5. High and soft notes are formed differently between the two instruments. A loud sound is produced by blowing louder into the recorder or pressing the piano keys more firmly. A soft sound is produced when you blow more gently into the recorder or when you press the piano keys less firmly. However, the markings on the score for loud and soft notes are the same for both instruments.
Now you understand what is a note, what is a recorder and a piano, and that the notes of the recorder in relation to the piano have characteristics that are the same and different.