You may not have known I was pregnant for several reasons. 1  You canât see me so you couldnât tell I that was already having problems tying my shoes. 2  It never really came up in a blog post. 3  With a couple miscarriages under my belt, I take my time on making baby announcements.
The story is told that Beethoven cut off the legs of the piano so he could hear the vibrations of the piano. This is perhaps not necessarily true, as many pianos of the time were made with removable legs so they could be carried into the various courts of the kings and emperors for performances.
On the piano, the quintessential tonal instrument, the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones represented by the seven white and five black keys. But consider the zoomoozophone, invented in 1978 by Dean Drummond, a founder of New York's Newband. It which resembles a marimba but is 20 feet long and flexible, the octave is divided into 31 parts and thus is capable of producing many more subleties of pitch variation than the piano.