Why do pianos sound so drastically different from most other string instruments?
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A few reasons: the amount of space in a piano for the sound to reverberate is larger and the strings are different (usually thicker and longer). Also pianos interact with their strings differently from other string instruments.
When you hit a key on a piano, it makes a little hammer inside the body of the piano hit the string. Classical string instruments (violins, cellos, etc) run a bow across the strings which makes a different vibration on the string and thus a different sound. Guitars sound different from classical string instruments and pianos for the same reasons.
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