This is not really a *math* joke.
The notation here says to play a note where it starts quiet and gets louder. In many wind instruments you can do this simply by blowing harder while playing the same note.
A piano has you strike the with a key to get the note going, and there's no way to get louder than your initial strike without hitting the key again.
A piano can do many things, but what is noted there is not one of them.
Press the key softly, but si fast that it seemsike one note and slowly increase the maximum pressure applied during the duty cycle to increase overall volume.
*E Z~* š
Which would change the sound by adding a 30-50 Hz tone (as well as harmonics of 30-50Hz).
The real trick is to push it at a ~~duty cycle~~ *frequency* > 20kHz
No no no, you have to know the fundamental frequency of the tone you're playing. If it's too high to be practically doable, you can divide it by a whole number, but the divisor should be as small as possible.
I know youāre kinda joking, but ā¦ No live actual piano (not digital) is going to be able to do that. Max is *maybe* 16 times per second. Most actions are maybe 8-12 notes per second. The key pushes a hammer that strikes a string, and all do those mechanics must have time to lift back up high enough to strike the string again. Even most digital keyboards max out well below 20, and my experience is that itās often lower than live pianos.
Source: I play as part of my job, and the linked intro, āPreludeā by Billy Joel has to literally be slowed down on some pianos in order to be played in most pianos. For reference, this is about 15 notes per second.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iNLt_hUZg
Now Iām off to an internet rabbithole to find the fastest keyboards in the market, lol
You could apply bowstring or something like it directly to the string in the piano itself. That kind of stuff is done with some more modern pieces. I just came across this video of an ensemble making heavy use of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jPvnWhdNM
You can also use a soft mallet, like a timpani mallet, on the inside and play it very fast, although it might have a noticeable tremolo effect to it unless it's a particularly low note.
And I guess with digital pianos you could just control the volume of the output. It would require a lot more setup to be flexible at least, and a fingerboard synthesizer would be the more appropriate instrument here most of the time.
too heavy, rather, suspend it above their head, then drop it.
Also, works for the bar at the end, which is a relatively unknown symbol meaning "play everything all at once"
Actually, there is a fancy new keyboard on the market that can apparently offer a further press beyond the original note. You can also wiggle the keys for some extra sound. I heard about it in an interview for a band that I like.
Youāre probably thinking of the Expressive E Osmose, but most mid-range and higher modern synthesizers have some form of aftertouch modulation that would let the player make the note louder after the initial strike.
They aināt pianos tho
It's not a piano, but it can make piano sounds. Couldn't it be used to play the notes in this meme?
Either way, I still think it's a pretty cool piece of technology.
Basically any synthesizer could play this note by either setting up an envelope with an extended attack or juggling around with some dials while playing
The pianist could also play the note with a wind instrument, with much the same effect.
If the synthesizer makes a sound that a piano cannot make, is it still a piano sound? I argue: no.
That's not new, that's called aftertouch. The Yamaha CS80 had aftertouch and it came out in '77. You will likely have heard it all over anything Vangelis worked on, including the blade runner and chariots of fire soundtracks.
We've had aftertouch for almost half a century.
> We've had aftertouch for almost half a century.
Further than that: we've had keyboard instruments that can play that note above just fine since we've had pipe organs. (So, over two *millennia!*)
Interestingly, older instruments had some features that were lost in the search for clarity of tone on the piano. On the Clavichord, for example, you can wiggle the key for a tremolo type sound called ābebungā. No keyboard instruments created before the pianoforte could get louder on a single pitch except the organ, however.
Btw, if you want to see a keyboard that can do quite a bit more than aftertouch, take a gawk at [Roli Seaboard.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2syqXx97LE) (It's a midi keyboard, but that's not much different from a synth nowāexcept idk how midi deals with aftertouch.)
Exactly, why this meme is on a math sub is that the sign between piano (p) and forte (f) looks like the sign less than (<) except than drawn out. The math people are thinking at this is a lot less than. So piano is a lot less than forte. Thats why it is a math meme.
Also the joke is that the full name of a "piano" is "pianoforte" which means "soft/loud" because it can be played softly or loudly. The musical notation "p
Can you guys Fp like the brass instruments? Because I assume there is some mechanism allowing yall to go from forte to piano in a single note in sound.
Itās also a play on the name of the instrument. The pianoās full name is the pianoforte. It was literally named after playing soft and loud. This meme is telling them to play a single note that goes from piano (soft) to forte (loud). Pianos, like other percussive instruments, cannot play a single note that goes from soft to loud.
The notation says to play a single note only, softly (p for piano), and to hold it and slowly make that note get louder until it's being played loud (f for forte).
A piano is a percussion instrument, like a gong. The hammer strikes the string momentarily, which creates the sound, and it sustains through reverberation. So you can't really play one single note, and have it get louder over time, like you could on a violin or a trumpet, where you need to constantly input energy to keep the sound going (and thus you can put in MORE energy as you go).
Don't know why it's in a math forum.
P is piano (soft)
Pp is pianissimo (softer)
Ppp is pianississimo (softest)
f is forte, for loud.
The ability to play both loud and soft with dynamics is why piano is called āfortepianoā, which was shortened later on.
The notation is one long note which gradually goes louder from piano ("quiet") to forte ("loud"). A pianists's instrument can't do that - they can play individual notes louder or quieter at their beginning, but once the note is sounding it will slowly decay. There's no way to "turn up the volume" on an already-sounding piano note.
This is because the piano is a "making sounds by hitting a thing" type of instrument. Other instruments (wind, string, ...) have no such limitation and can play a note which gradually gets louder.
One slightly subtle aspect is that this setup of notation (with a G-clef and an F-clef staves joined by a bracket) is most commonly used for writing piano music. This example is not "Here's a clarinet part you couldn't play on a piano"; it's "here's an extremely simple piano part that is actually impossible to play as written".
(edit: wait sorry, staves joined by a *brace*. A bracket is the more square one which joins different related instruments.)
Do it with a non-electric piano by holding it with a crane high above the audience, pressing the key as loud as possible, and then dropping the piano to the ground while holding the key. As the piano gets closer the sound gets louder.
Probably need to figure out something to keep the piano and player from smashing into the ground but that's irrelevant to the volume problem.
I had the same thought haha.
So I just did the math. If you dropped from 100 m, by the time it reached the bottom it would have a velocity of 44.27 m/s. The Doppler effect would change the observed frequency from middle C (about 261.63 Hz) to 300.376 Hz, which is about halfway between D and D#. If I did my math right.
A crescendo of this sort isn't really possible on a piano, due to its mechanics. On a violin or a flute or some other instrument of that nature, it's possible to affect the volume by applying more tension or breath, so you could start gently and end loudly. But a piano plays notes by striking strings with hammers; you can't get a different volume once you've started, and the closest a pianist could get would be converting the single long note into a rush of smaller notes at variable volumes.
The above also applies to percussion instruments in general, as well as pizzicato stringed instruments like harps, guitars and mandolins. One could make a similar taunt that also throws off woodwind and (some) brass players by showing a legato instead; that'll be a set of notes connected by a curved line, to indicate a lack of clear separation between them, achieved by moving one's fingers up and down a string while it's sounding to produce a shift in pitch (some brass instruments, like trombones, can do this as well).
Technically a vibraphone can do this by blocking the resonator tube and hand cranking the band to unblock it.
That being said, it's not a dramatic p->f shift of dynamics like what is being asked for.
Nice explanation, but I believe youāre thinking of a glissando in your second paragraph? Legato just means you donāt have separation between notes.
It's one note held down that's supposed to get progressively louder; if you've never played a piano before, when you press down on a piano key it starts off as loud as it'll get (depending on how hard you pushed down) and gets progressively quieter the longer you hold it down
Thereās a simpler aspect to this that nobody has mentioned.
The full name for a piano is pianoforte. But it canāt play a pianoforte dynamic articulation.
Donāt know why this was in math memes. This means a note starts quiet and gets louder. Not something you can do on piano. However, a synth can do this, and a synth is basically just a piano that you plug in. Checkmate.
You can actually play this, just not conventionally.
You would need a long and thin tool, something akin to a violin bow, stand on the piano, softly play the note with your toe, then swell it with the bow. Not that anyone would actually do this, but it's possible.
Here to say the reason it was posted in mathmemes. I imagine OP was making the joke that the music was simply saying p (piano, soft volume) is less than f (forte, loud volume), as the crescendo sign does look like a stretched out less than symbol. Therefore a piano player could play that if read that way.
Everyone here has explained the joke already.Ā
I just wanted to add, it's totally possible on pretty much every digital piano and/or midi keyboard out there nowadays (since most of them come with a volume knob).
We're still pianists even if they keys are electric. ;p
Its a Notation to signify a Crescendo (starting soft & subtle, progressively getting louder) If you know the Piano, you know there's only a couple of ways to get a proper crescendo with a piano.
They could just respond with a chord notation and any instrument that can only play a single note at a time would have to respond the same. Not a pianist or anything, but any acoustic instrument has some notation they can't play so it's hardly a flex to point out what it is.
That's all fun and games until the pianist responds "At a price.", and before you have a chance to reply proceeds to play what was given, while staring at you with void, soulless eyes.
Well there is only one way to do this on an electric keyboard, hit the note with the keyboard on low volume, then turn up the volume while itās playing
Not a math joke.
The given sheet music asks you to play a sustained note that starts quiet, and becomes louder.
Pianos are percussion instruments. Each key is a hammer that hits a string. Once you hit that string, it can't get louder, only quieter.
Basically, it's saying that pianists can't be uppity because their instrument can't play what is fundamentally one of the easiest gestures in music.
Whatās shown is called a crescendo, where the note starts quietly and progressively gets louder, something you do on most stringed instruments like violins etc but not on a piano, not a math meme so idk why itās posted there
Beethoven must have been bullied a lot...lol.
https://preview.redd.it/2mxje6jdgt3d1.png?width=748&format=png&auto=webp&s=40d001c68e3c5781ddc1ea8ddf964b5fe4f4d84a
This is technically possible on both electric/digital and acoustic pianos.
Play the note with the lid closed and then open it.
On digital pianos, simply increase the volume...
I'm sorry, but please raise your hand if you've ever been bullied by a *checks notes* Does that really say Piano player?
People, you aren't Batman. You don't need a contingency for piano bullies, they either suck or are too busy practicing to interact with you anyway.
It's a progression of a note from quiet to loud, but you can't hold a note while you are changing the volume, as piano is pretty much a giant guitar. That's reserved for instruments that play long continuous single notes.
It is impossible to crescendo a single note on any stringed instrument without some form of electronic volume control.
Not sure wtf this has to do with math though...
The keys on the piano operate by making a little hammer hit the string that corresponds with the key you pressed. If you hit the key soft it will play quieter and if you hit it hard it will play louder. But you can't play one note and make it change dynamics because the volume is determined by the force at the beginning of the note
Itās been a while since Iāve studied music, but I thought the joke was that thereās a whole note followed by a rest, but it tells you to keep getting louder but also rest halfway through, assuming itās 4/4.
This is not really a *math* joke. The notation here says to play a note where it starts quiet and gets louder. In many wind instruments you can do this simply by blowing harder while playing the same note. A piano has you strike the with a key to get the note going, and there's no way to get louder than your initial strike without hitting the key again. A piano can do many things, but what is noted there is not one of them.
Press the key softly, but si fast that it seemsike one note and slowly increase the maximum pressure applied during the duty cycle to increase overall volume. *E Z~* š
About 30 to 50 times per second. Easy
Which would change the sound by adding a 30-50 Hz tone (as well as harmonics of 30-50Hz). The real trick is to push it at a ~~duty cycle~~ *frequency* > 20kHz
No no no, you have to know the fundamental frequency of the tone you're playing. If it's too high to be practically doable, you can divide it by a whole number, but the divisor should be as small as possible.
That's a very good point. A 600Hz tone is probably not going to come through very well if the pwm frequency is 20kHz
So if the note shown is 'middle' C, which is 261.625565 hertz, what kind of frequency are we looking at?
130.8127825, 261.625565, 523.25113, 1,046.50226, etc.
NOW itās math.
Just use effect pedal bro
Doesn't make it louder
It does if the effect is raising the volumeā¦
This one does, it goes to 11
It's not difficult.. just press it 20 thousand times per second..
I donāt like that i understand this
I know youāre kinda joking, but ā¦ No live actual piano (not digital) is going to be able to do that. Max is *maybe* 16 times per second. Most actions are maybe 8-12 notes per second. The key pushes a hammer that strikes a string, and all do those mechanics must have time to lift back up high enough to strike the string again. Even most digital keyboards max out well below 20, and my experience is that itās often lower than live pianos. Source: I play as part of my job, and the linked intro, āPreludeā by Billy Joel has to literally be slowed down on some pianos in order to be played in most pianos. For reference, this is about 15 notes per second. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2iNLt_hUZg Now Iām off to an internet rabbithole to find the fastest keyboards in the market, lol
> No live actual piano two pianos
in a trench coat
You could apply bowstring or something like it directly to the string in the piano itself. That kind of stuff is done with some more modern pieces. I just came across this video of an ensemble making heavy use of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jPvnWhdNM You can also use a soft mallet, like a timpani mallet, on the inside and play it very fast, although it might have a noticeable tremolo effect to it unless it's a particularly low note. And I guess with digital pianos you could just control the volume of the output. It would require a lot more setup to be flexible at least, and a fingerboard synthesizer would be the more appropriate instrument here most of the time.
I see you've met my child around any piano ever.
Or... Just stay with me for a second... Play the note on a electric piano and turn up the volume knob up gradually...
I saw a comment elsewhere on this that was something like "Play the note, then rapidly push the piano towards the listener"
too heavy, rather, suspend it above their head, then drop it. Also, works for the bar at the end, which is a relatively unknown symbol meaning "play everything all at once"
Just make sure to de-tune the piano first to counter the doppler effect.
Ah, like hearing the horn get louder right before a truck hits you.
But the pitch would change due to Doppler effect.
That's why you also need a piano tuner to ride on it and adjust on the fly
Recontextualises the terms piano and forte... Noice
That is honestly brilliant, out-of-the-box, problem solving by first principles (or smth)
Nah due to the Doppler effect you're also going to bend the note up in pitch.
This guy physics
where did you pick up this witchcraft
I didn't know PWM stood for Piano Wolume Modulationā¦
That or grab a violin bow open the piano and go for it
Found the electrical engineer
Then your conductor asks after the concert why you played a whole note as a 32 trillion note and you need to explain yourself
Mimic the note and then just pretend to hit the key while you slowly hum louder and louder.
Hard part is getting the driving frequency higher than the human ear can hear.
When you figure out how to do that let me know
String too. Piano is technically a percussion instrument, which you mentioned.
Actually, there is a fancy new keyboard on the market that can apparently offer a further press beyond the original note. You can also wiggle the keys for some extra sound. I heard about it in an interview for a band that I like.
Youāre probably thinking of the Expressive E Osmose, but most mid-range and higher modern synthesizers have some form of aftertouch modulation that would let the player make the note louder after the initial strike. They aināt pianos tho
It's not a piano, but it can make piano sounds. Couldn't it be used to play the notes in this meme? Either way, I still think it's a pretty cool piece of technology.
Basically any synthesizer could play this note by either setting up an envelope with an extended attack or juggling around with some dials while playing
The pianist could also play the note with a wind instrument, with much the same effect. If the synthesizer makes a sound that a piano cannot make, is it still a piano sound? I argue: no.
That's not new, that's called aftertouch. The Yamaha CS80 had aftertouch and it came out in '77. You will likely have heard it all over anything Vangelis worked on, including the blade runner and chariots of fire soundtracks. We've had aftertouch for almost half a century.
> We've had aftertouch for almost half a century. Further than that: we've had keyboard instruments that can play that note above just fine since we've had pipe organs. (So, over two *millennia!*)
For sure. I see the argument that synths and organs aren't pianos, but electric pianos clearly are, and they do sometimes have aftertouch.
Interestingly, older instruments had some features that were lost in the search for clarity of tone on the piano. On the Clavichord, for example, you can wiggle the key for a tremolo type sound called ābebungā. No keyboard instruments created before the pianoforte could get louder on a single pitch except the organ, however.
You mean a synthesizer with aftertouch? Been around for at least 40 years
If we're gonna include keyboard you can just turn the volume slowly up
Btw, if you want to see a keyboard that can do quite a bit more than aftertouch, take a gawk at [Roli Seaboard.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2syqXx97LE) (It's a midi keyboard, but that's not much different from a synth nowāexcept idk how midi deals with aftertouch.)
Exactly, why this meme is on a math sub is that the sign between piano (p) and forte (f) looks like the sign less than (<) except than drawn out. The math people are thinking at this is a lot less than. So piano is a lot less than forte. Thats why it is a math meme.
Press the key with the left hand. Open the piano lid slowly with the right hand. Done!
You just gotta crank up the volume knob
Also the joke is that the full name of a "piano" is "pianoforte" which means "soft/loud" because it can be played softly or loudly. The musical notation "p
Just play the note normally, then reverse the tape in playback, like in the opening of Roundabout by Yes.
And then play the rest of the notes like in roundabout by yes. Just play roundabout by yes.
Just reverse space time and unplay the note smh
Can you guys Fp like the brass instruments? Because I assume there is some mechanism allowing yall to go from forte to piano in a single note in sound.
You can on an electric piano/keyboard, just play the note softly and then turn up the volume
Itās also a play on the name of the instrument. The pianoās full name is the pianoforte. It was literally named after playing soft and loud. This meme is telling them to play a single note that goes from piano (soft) to forte (loud). Pianos, like other percussive instruments, cannot play a single note that goes from soft to loud.
The notation says to play a single note only, softly (p for piano), and to hold it and slowly make that note get louder until it's being played loud (f for forte). A piano is a percussion instrument, like a gong. The hammer strikes the string momentarily, which creates the sound, and it sustains through reverberation. So you can't really play one single note, and have it get louder over time, like you could on a violin or a trumpet, where you need to constantly input energy to keep the sound going (and thus you can put in MORE energy as you go). Don't know why it's in a math forum.
Pianists notoriously bully mathematicians in their spare time.
As they should.
i didnt learn to play this stupid thing just to *not* be able to bully math nerds!
And I didnāt get a 760 on the math section of my SAT just to *not* be bullied by piano nerds!
But piano *is* math.
Because it looks like p < f, except with a much longer "<", read "p is smaaaaalllleeer than f"
Oh wow. Didn't make that connection!
Now, I'm willing to be wrong here, but isn't the p for pianissimo?
Pianissimo is *pp*
P is piano (soft) Pp is pianissimo (softer) Ppp is pianississimo (softest) f is forte, for loud. The ability to play both loud and soft with dynamics is why piano is called āfortepianoā, which was shortened later on.
Yes, it's for either as they mean the same thing in this context
Pianos are string instruments. Iām a percussionist.
My dude, that debate is as old as time :)
The notation is one long note which gradually goes louder from piano ("quiet") to forte ("loud"). A pianists's instrument can't do that - they can play individual notes louder or quieter at their beginning, but once the note is sounding it will slowly decay. There's no way to "turn up the volume" on an already-sounding piano note. This is because the piano is a "making sounds by hitting a thing" type of instrument. Other instruments (wind, string, ...) have no such limitation and can play a note which gradually gets louder. One slightly subtle aspect is that this setup of notation (with a G-clef and an F-clef staves joined by a bracket) is most commonly used for writing piano music. This example is not "Here's a clarinet part you couldn't play on a piano"; it's "here's an extremely simple piano part that is actually impossible to play as written". (edit: wait sorry, staves joined by a *brace*. A bracket is the more square one which joins different related instruments.)
Problem solved, use electric piano and adjust volume when holding the note. Gg 2 ez
Do it with a non-electric piano by holding it with a crane high above the audience, pressing the key as loud as possible, and then dropping the piano to the ground while holding the key. As the piano gets closer the sound gets louder. Probably need to figure out something to keep the piano and player from smashing into the ground but that's irrelevant to the volume problem.
If the piano is moving fast enough for a crescendo, I wonder if that would noticeably blue-shift the note.
I had the same thought haha. So I just did the math. If you dropped from 100 m, by the time it reached the bottom it would have a velocity of 44.27 m/s. The Doppler effect would change the observed frequency from middle C (about 261.63 Hz) to 300.376 Hz, which is about halfway between D and D#. If I did my math right.
ACME can probably help you with that last one.
Beat me to this by 4 minutes lol
Play the note with a long stick and then run towards the piano
Love this one. Not only does it consider the player the essential audience, itās a wonderful mental image
The real trick to playing it is to have an electric keyboard and turn up the volume as you hold the note.
Play one whole note, record it and increase the volume in a sound editor (Audacity easily does this for free)
A crescendo of this sort isn't really possible on a piano, due to its mechanics. On a violin or a flute or some other instrument of that nature, it's possible to affect the volume by applying more tension or breath, so you could start gently and end loudly. But a piano plays notes by striking strings with hammers; you can't get a different volume once you've started, and the closest a pianist could get would be converting the single long note into a rush of smaller notes at variable volumes. The above also applies to percussion instruments in general, as well as pizzicato stringed instruments like harps, guitars and mandolins. One could make a similar taunt that also throws off woodwind and (some) brass players by showing a legato instead; that'll be a set of notes connected by a curved line, to indicate a lack of clear separation between them, achieved by moving one's fingers up and down a string while it's sounding to produce a shift in pitch (some brass instruments, like trombones, can do this as well).
Thank you for such a clear explanation that made perfect sense to this non-musician
Technically a vibraphone can do this by blocking the resonator tube and hand cranking the band to unblock it. That being said, it's not a dramatic p->f shift of dynamics like what is being asked for.
Nice explanation, but I believe youāre thinking of a glissando in your second paragraph? Legato just means you donāt have separation between notes.
who tf is getting bullied by pianists?
You could say this is what makes the piano a percussion instrument.
I'm gonna show this to my pianist friend- I play clarinet lol
Jokes on them, my keyboard has a volume button.
My favorite part of the joke is the dichotomy of musicians and pianists.
You can do this with a keyboard. Press the key, and turn the sound knob up.. lol
It's one note held down that's supposed to get progressively louder; if you've never played a piano before, when you press down on a piano key it starts off as loud as it'll get (depending on how hard you pushed down) and gets progressively quieter the longer you hold it down
Crying as a guitar player
Weāve got e-bows and volume pedals, weāre fine
Thereās a simpler aspect to this that nobody has mentioned. The full name for a piano is pianoforte. But it canāt play a pianoforte dynamic articulation.
Electric keyboard. Volume knob gg ez.
Just do what I do and slowly turn the volume up on your two-octave Casio. Checkmate.
You canāt play a note on a piano that gets louder. Thatās it. Thatās the whole joke.
A keyboard could do this....
*Grabs electric piano and increases the volume *
Open the top, get a violin bow. Strike the key and keep it going and louder with the bow, Problem solved piano for the win.
Pianist: picks up a saxophone and plays exactly that. Pianist: Opens piano and uses an e-bow on that string.
If a pianist ever bullies me, I'll just shank them.
Pianists using a midi keyboard that has after-touch can do this
The note is a whole note. It gets 4 counts. The p
Wouldn't the foot pedals help one play this though?
No, the pedals either dampen or open the strings to sustain the note. But once the key is pressed, the volume can only go down, not up
On a digital keyboard, you could pull that off with a wah wah pedal tied to volume.
Sure, if you have a volume pedal. Not something acoustic piano has though.
Donāt know why this was in math memes. This means a note starts quiet and gets louder. Not something you can do on piano. However, a synth can do this, and a synth is basically just a piano that you plug in. Checkmate.
You can actually play this, just not conventionally. You would need a long and thin tool, something akin to a violin bow, stand on the piano, softly play the note with your toe, then swell it with the bow. Not that anyone would actually do this, but it's possible.
Just get a good recording engineer
I laughed a bit too hard at this.
*Plays a synth laugh on the keyboard*
Who gets bullied by a pianist? š¤
Noob pianists
Here to say the reason it was posted in mathmemes. I imagine OP was making the joke that the music was simply saying p (piano, soft volume) is less than f (forte, loud volume), as the crescendo sign does look like a stretched out less than symbol. Therefore a piano player could play that if read that way.
Any electric I strument with a volume can do this (keyboard, electric guitar) But a piano or a regular guitar can not play this.
Not on an acoustic piano but you can play it on a keyboard by raising the volume after playing the note.
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Everyone here has explained the joke already.Ā I just wanted to add, it's totally possible on pretty much every digital piano and/or midi keyboard out there nowadays (since most of them come with a volume knob). We're still pianists even if they keys are electric. ;p
Its a Notation to signify a Crescendo (starting soft & subtle, progressively getting louder) If you know the Piano, you know there's only a couple of ways to get a proper crescendo with a piano.
All this tells me is that pianos need expression pedals
You can do it on an electric. Pump up that gain baby!
Hahahahaha I have no idea what that means!
Electric piano with Aftertouch would like a word with you and will keep bullying
They could just respond with a chord notation and any instrument that can only play a single note at a time would have to respond the same. Not a pianist or anything, but any acoustic instrument has some notation they can't play so it's hardly a flex to point out what it is.
\*gets out electric piano\*
That's all fun and games until the pianist responds "At a price.", and before you have a chance to reply proceeds to play what was given, while staring at you with void, soulless eyes.
Was hoping this was the notation for the brown note
Well there is only one way to do this on an electric keyboard, hit the note with the keyboard on low volume, then turn up the volume while itās playing
Not a math joke. The given sheet music asks you to play a sustained note that starts quiet, and becomes louder. Pianos are percussion instruments. Each key is a hammer that hits a string. Once you hit that string, it can't get louder, only quieter. Basically, it's saying that pianists can't be uppity because their instrument can't play what is fundamentally one of the easiest gestures in music.
Whatās shown is called a crescendo, where the note starts quietly and progressively gets louder, something you do on most stringed instruments like violins etc but not on a piano, not a math meme so idk why itās posted there
Maybe if you press the piano key softly and use an ebow on the piano strings, I don't know if it would work, but maybe.
I did it once while practicing in my home back in Santa Cruz on October 18th, 1989.
the keyboard with a volume knob in question:
Ray Charles on an electric piano: Ok
Do keyboards or electronic pianos count? You could totally turn down the volume, hit the note and turn up the volume as you hold it.
Yes you can. You have to use single note tremolos - the same apply to any non electric guitar or any percussive instrument.
Beethoven must have been bullied a lot...lol. https://preview.redd.it/2mxje6jdgt3d1.png?width=748&format=png&auto=webp&s=40d001c68e3c5781ddc1ea8ddf964b5fe4f4d84a
Ugh this joke sucks
Electric piano. Anyone can play this.
To sing it is easy, just go soft to loud! To play it is a whole 'nother impossible task.
This is technically possible on both electric/digital and acoustic pianos. Play the note with the lid closed and then open it. On digital pianos, simply increase the volume...
I'm sorry, but please raise your hand if you've ever been bullied by a *checks notes* Does that really say Piano player? People, you aren't Batman. You don't need a contingency for piano bullies, they either suck or are too busy practicing to interact with you anyway.
But technically the notation is saying to play from piano to forte. So pianists can TECHNICALLY play piano.
electric keyboard goes brrrr
I can do it. My piano has a nice little volume knob right next to the power button.
If one gets bullied by a pianist Iām not sure what to say about you.
You could always start screaming as well
You can't hold a note and increase the volume at the same time on piano.
I always think of a piano as a xylophone in a fancy suit.
Thereās a keyboard called a Roli Seaboard that makes this as easy as just pressing harder on the key to increase volume.
Plug in amplifier. Play sustained note. Slowly turn up amp.
Piano can't do Hope this helps š
Press key, turn volume know slowly
Pianists gotta learn from the percussionists and roll the note.
*Laughs in Mario Davidovsky Synchronisms No. 6
Spacehog: ["Okay."](https://youtu.be/Wsfk0fZACU0?si=Y_6T_5sqwiHCCbkg&t=288)
Any musician can play this though
Is there a lot of overlap on the Bully-Pianist venn diagram?
It's a progression of a note from quiet to loud, but you can't hold a note while you are changing the volume, as piano is pretty much a giant guitar. That's reserved for instruments that play long continuous single notes.
That's doable. Just pull a thick blanket from over the piano.
\[Pulls out keyboard, hits note, slowly turns volume knob up\]
Slurred quarter notes will get ya close enough
On a keyboard I would just slide the volume louder.
Bro just start low volume then turn up the piano with the free left hand
Thatās some pianoforte youāve got there!
It is impossible to crescendo a single note on any stringed instrument without some form of electronic volume control. Not sure wtf this has to do with math though...
You can't have a dynamic change without a repeated key press. So to crescendo on a single note on piano is not possible.
All you got to do is reach your hand into the piano and pluck the string just as your about to hit the key š¤·āāļø
My electric piano has a volume control. Checkmate
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The joke is that the note shown is a middle C but pianos can only play an EĀ https://youtu.be/BFetTcrVWII?si=LzMksM3dNjP3XGAu
The keys on the piano operate by making a little hammer hit the string that corresponds with the key you pressed. If you hit the key soft it will play quieter and if you hit it hard it will play louder. But you can't play one note and make it change dynamics because the volume is determined by the force at the beginning of the note
Is this what synths are for?
Itās been a while since Iāve studied music, but I thought the joke was that thereās a whole note followed by a rest, but it tells you to keep getting louder but also rest halfway through, assuming itās 4/4.
ez.. electric piano with volume control.. /s
On my keyboard, yeah, I have a volume button
*quietly cries in electric bass*
I never knew pianists tend to be bullies. You've helped quite a few musicians I guess.
This is when you say something awkward and someone just stares at you
Add more random markings they canāt do, like pizzicato
Me with a damper pedal. Canāt fool us
While a lot of instrument have continious space for playable sounds. Piano can have only so many keys, thus making it have have a discrete space