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Thread #68732 Message #1159770
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
12-Apr-04 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Learning piano/organ
Subject: RE: Learning piano/organ
Good to see someone taking up a new instrument.
Well, for a start, there is a big difference between a Piano and a Harmonium.
The piano is a percussive instrument, harmoniums are reed instruments. Indeed all "organs" are not percussive instruments, but by origin, wind instruments. Electric/electronic instruments are nearer in concept to the organ than the piano, or indeed any instrument that they simulate.
However, any instrument with a "piano keyboard" does share a common ground of the way the pitches are placed on the instrument, so a piano teacher can help you get familiar with the keyboard. But they are different animals. Just like the fact that a "piano accordion" is not played at all like a "piano".
Robin