The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
Mel Gibson (I) Actor | Producer | Director Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990).
Althea Gibson: the Birth of a Champion. Image Credit: ESPN.com. Althea Gibson was born in 1927 in Carolina, her parents were poor and their lively hood was under threat. As cotton pickers they received a small percentage of the profits for their labour but America was in the grips of savage drought and for three consecutive years the crops failed forcing them to uproot their small family.