Why, yes there is! Piano Key Numbers or Pitch Range Numbers are specific numbers given to the Piano Keys so that they can be identified in a consistent and logical way.
These numbers also allow us to identify the range of all Musical Instruments including the Voice as they relate to musical pitches. Each musical instrument has a specific range in pitch lowest to highest note.
The piano has a range of 88 keys. Middle C is C4 - C four. At Ultimate Music Theory, we understand that not all beginner students are lucky enough to have a piano or a full sized digital keyboard to practice on. I'm sure that we ALL have stories about Parents calling to request piano lessons but they either do not have a piano or want to start on a tiny toy keyboard.
This allows the Students to be able to think in terms of pitch being either low, middle or high. So, whether your Student is practicing on a smaller keyboard or on a full sized keyboard, they will be able to relate to the concept of low, middle and high pitches. If you have ever taught young students, I bet that you have heard Students confuse a "low pitch" with being "loud" and a "high pitch" with being "soft".
Young Students may not understand the concept of Pitch as they have never really been introduced to it. An understanding of Pitch is NOT something that all children are born with! Then play HIGH pitches. Stand on tippy toes reaching up to the sky and say "high" in a high squeaky voice.
Another suggestion is to describe pitch as it relates to how a Baseball Pitcher would throw the ball to the Catcher.
The Batter is the person hitting the ball. These are:. Pitch class simply refers to an octave from one C to the next. In pitch notation, the notes C4 , D4 , and B4 belong to the same pitch class, which is the fourth octave. But, pitch notation is just one way of referencing notes.
Each octave, as well as each C , has its own universal name. These are as follows:. All of the notes may be called out using these systems. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.
Create a personalised content profile. Some instrumentalists and singers are not familiar with keyboards, so to them, Middle C might not have much significance. Using middle C as a reference point might, however, be one way to communicate if you frequently work with keyboard musicians who use keyboards or synths that have only 61 or 76 notes, but who do know where Middle C is.
A second system, used currently by piano tuners, numbers the keys on the piano from 1 to See Figure 2 Hence A-1 is at the bottom of the keyboard, and C at the top. This works well for key pianos, but as we said, many keyboards on organs, synthesizers, and electronic pianos are shorter than 88 keys, so unless one remembers that Middle C is C, and unless one can count both downwards and upwards from C easily, this system becomes confusing as well.
This second system was really only adopted when pianos began being standardized at 88 keys. In the diagram you will see that each note on the keyboard has a number from 1 to 88, counting up from the left or bottom end of the keyboard, and including the black keys. The octaves above middle C become c 2 , c 3 , c 4 and, at the top of the 88 note keyboard, c 5. See Figure 3. This is somewhat similar to a system used in the Encyclopedia Britannica in their section on Keyboard Instruments, the difference being that the Britannica labels the C"s, starting with Middle C and going upwards, as c', c'', c''', c'''', and c''''' at the very top.
However, Brittanica then proceeds to muddy up the waters again by saying that the note at the bottom of the keyboard is A2, as opposed to AAA in Crombie. In addition, Brittanica feels the need to use the terms high C and low C to further explain what they mean.
In their system, high C is two octaves above Middle C and low C an octave below. But that still leaves us in suspense: what to call that elusive C an octave above Middle C?
Note that, even in these two systems, C1 c 1 and C2 c 2 mean different things. To add more fuel to the controversy, another source I consulted, on Introductory Music, calls the c an octave above Middle C "high C". Thus we have at least two different c"s, one two octaves and the other one octave above Middle C both being referred to as "high". With the advent of MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface designed to hook electronic and acoustic pianos, synthesizers, samplers, and other types of keyboards together, there is still another system Figure 4.
In the MIDI specification, as a result of binary language 7-bit words, or 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 , there are notes possible, so it was evidentally decided to extend the range far above and below that of the standard 88 key keyboard.
This will, no doubt, bring yet one more element of confusion to the problems of what to call the keys on the piano. Piano Finders. What to call the keys, or -Which C is that one over there?
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