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Poll Question: Pick your favourite track that starts with just a keyboards playing:
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Thought about it for a while, came up with the title suite from Museo Rosenbach's Zarathustra.

Quiet, light, beautiful key intro before guitar and mellotron join it for an awesome overture.

Then cue Zoroaster on his mountain.
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So many PF fans in PA Forum and I can't figure out why no one mentioned Summer' 68, this is one of my favourites from them. The piano intro is quite short but the music is awesome indeed.

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Because it's piano, not keyboards
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Piano is not a keyboardShocked

Talking of PF my favourite keyboard intro is Sheep but of course there are those animal sounds to go with it.
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If a piano is not a keyboard what is it? A giraffe?

Precision please. Are we talking synth analogue /digital, organ acoustic / electric, electric piano? Obviously acoustic piano is out as this is - not....? a keyboard.
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Technically speaking, a piano is a strings instrument
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a percussive string instrument, an evolved form of duclimer and harpiscord. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSwKLnG8VQ

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No contest!  Hands down:  'Fifth of Firth'...
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Technically speaking, a piano is a strings instrument

Actually, technically speaking - Piano is a percussion instrument:  The hammers hit the strings.  This is what I was taught in an all-around percussion course in college.  To be an all-around percussionist, you actually need to be somewhat proficient on the piano.  (Thanks, Icarium, for that endorsement...)


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Originally posted by prog4evr prog4evr wrote:

Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Technically speaking, a piano is a strings instrument

Actually, technically speaking - Piano is a percussion instrument:  The hammers hit the strings.  This is what I was taught in an all-around percussion course in college.  To be an all-around percussionist, you actually need to be somewhat proficient on the piano.  (Thanks, Icarium, for that endorsement...)

that buggers up your selection thenLOL
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i would think that a piano is a keyboard whether the strings are played percussively or by the bites of tiny mice it still has the primary requesite things that makes it a keyboard (CLUE : they are black and white)
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Even if both have keys, a piano and a pipe organ are two compleyely different instruments. It's true that if you learn how to press the keys on a piano you are advantaged in learning organ, but the techniques are not the same. Electronic keyboards are derived mainly from organ in principles, but they can produce the sound of a piano, as well as strings, brasses, percussions and flutes, helicopters, storms and so on.
I don't remember the name of that instrument used in schools which has black and white keys but you have to blow in it. Concertina is more similar to a pipe organ than a piano. If piano is allowed, Can you Understand by Renaissance is one of the best intros that I know
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I've always considered the piano a keyboard instrument, regardless of the way the sound is generated, because of.. well.. the keys, right? You don't pluck the strings or beat them with hand-held hammers. You press keys to play, so in my opinion that makes it a keyboard instrument. I mean... you've got the Hammond organ, which utilizes tonewheels to produce the sound, the Rhodes piano with its tines and all the electronic keyboards/samplers/romplers, not to mention the Mellotron. You know what they all have in common? The keyboards? So... naturally, they're keyboard instuments, right? I agree, the piano is technically a string/percussive instrument.... but that doesn't eliminate the fact that it's also keyboard based.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

I've always considered the piano a keyboard instrument, regardless of the way the sound is generated, because of.. well.. the keys, right? You don't pluck the strings or beat them with hand-held hammers. You press keys to play, so in my opinion that makes it a keyboard instrument. I mean... you've got the Hammond organ, which utilizes tonewheels to produce the sound, the Rhodes piano with its tines and all the electronic keyboards/samplers/romplers, not to mention the Mellotron. You know what they all have in common? The keyboards? So... naturally, they're keyboard instuments, right? I agree, the piano is technically a string/percussive instrument.... but that doesn't eliminate the fact that it's also keyboard based.
Keith Emerson plucks the strings, too. 
The main difference between a piano and an organ is that an organ note can last as long as you want. You can't do it with a piano. The weight of the keys is different, and even if an accordion has keys, too, the three are not the same thing. An excellent pianist is not necessarily an excellent organist and vice/versa. A piano solo and an organ solo are never the same thing. You can ask your synth to produce the sound of a piano, but this is another story. Playing accordion on C'est la Vie for Keith Emerson has been probably simpler than how it could have been for Greg Lake, but it's all. Accordion has a keyboard but is not a keyboard.
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Accordion has a keyboard but is not a keyboard.
Okay. You got me there. :p
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Watcher of the Skies should have been on here. It has a better intro than Firth of Fifth imo.
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I'm all in with Hammer in the Sand. Beautiful.
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The piano/keyboard intro that never fails to attract the old goosebumps is the title track of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Also love the simple piano intro (and the playing throughout the song) of the album closer on Coldplay's (gasp) last album, track called 0.
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