prokopetz:

canardbabillard:

prokopetz:

Today’s pet peeve: a piano is not “a harp in a box”.

A piano is a dulcimer in a box.

A harpsichord is a harp in a box.

To be even more pedantic, it’s a hammered dulcimer in a box. Dulcimers are a pretty broad family and not all are, well, hammered.

A piano is the result of a frustrated dulcimerist going “what I really need is to be able to wield more hammers at once. No, more than that. More.”