Piano, Out Loud! »

Posted By mattreep 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment

Despite its versatility and extensive history in its own right, the piano occupies perhaps the strangest position in rock music. Its fullness of sound and infinite chord possibilities make it the most musically scalable of instruments, yet its most common role is as the province of full-on throwback outfits, starkly arranged singer-songwriter tunes or hard rock acts bent on being taken seriously. What's more, the keyboard family enjoys the furthest-advanced technology of all, yet this most versatile of instruments is still often unfairly relegated to the background (or, in the case of those power ballads, embarrassingly to the foreground).

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