Piano

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In its beginning the tango was executed by guitars, flute and bandoneón. This was due to the fact that the executing musicians, habitually had to move from one place to another. Since the inclusion of the tango in social ambiences, more distinguished than the usual brothels and suburbs, the musicians could already be more sedentary and do not turn bound to take their instruments with them and they could include, for example, the piano, which is not easily movable.

The piano is a musical instrument classified as instrument of keyboard of percuted ropes, according to the system of traditional classification. According to the more used present classification, the piano is a zither with soundbox, to which it was added a keyboard, by means of which the ropes can be percuted.

The piano produces the sound percuting the ropes of steel with hammers lined with felt. The vibrations are transmitted across the bridges to the harmonic table.

Julio de Caro, musician, violinist, director and composer, in the year 1924, forms his sextet and marks the beginning of the so-called "New Guard of the Tango" and the proliferation of the Bands, inside the tango, which included the piano as playing instrument.