- A piano has a lot of parts, a total of 12,000 parts, 10,000 of which are moving parts. Due to there being many parts a piano has be tuned multiple times a year.
- A piano needs 230 strings, a standard piano sums up to 20 tons while a grand piano sums up to 30 tons.
- As of 1940 piano keys were no longer made of ivory but instead made of plastic. The keys are still referred as ivories though which if you think about it they shouldn’t because they aren’t ivory anymore.
- An average grand piano has a weight over 1400 pounds with a height of 8 feet and 11 inches.
- In the United States there are 10 million pianos and 18 million non-professional pianists.
- When you buy a new piano, it will have to be tuned 4 times within the first year.
- The most expensive piano was sold for 3.22 million dollars at an auction.
- The Steinway company has been making pianos since 1853 and a grand piano from them would cost you as much as 100,000 dollars.
- The first piano that was invented was made in the year 1698 by a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy.
- The world’s largest piano is located in New Zealand by a man named Adrian Mann. The piano had a weight of 1.4 tonnes and 7 meters long. It took Adrian 4 years to build the piano.
- At the 20th edition of the International Festival of Ice Sculpture in 2004, there was a piano made entirely of ice.
20 Interesting Piano Facts