88 Piano Keys Cache #4 Traditional Geocache
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We have hidden four Piano Keys Caches throughout Maine with individual keys inside. (GC14912, GC1491H, GC14926) These individual keys are available for you to pick up and spread the music as your own cache.
Each Key comes with a 4 page log sheet and is in a film canister with the Key Number and Note on the outside of the container.
When you pick up your Key, Either log a note online or email me, which one you have taken. This will help me keep track of the inventory. Please hide all the Keys in Maine. Try to keep the Hide under a three and the terrain under a two.
You will want to keep track of all the keys you visit, once they are put out, because anyone that visits more than 44 keys can have their name listed on this cache page. You can count your own key as one of the forty-four, you do not need to log a smiley on your own. There will be a prize for the first to find all 88 keys.
Piano History Part 4
The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven octaves by 1820.
The Viennese makers followed these trends. The two schools, however, used different piano actions: the Broadwood one more robust, the Viennese more sensitive.
Almost every modern piano has 88 keys (seven octaves plus a minor third, from A0 to C8). Many older pianos only have 85 keys (seven octaves from A0 to A7)
The most notable example of an extended range can be found on Bösendorfer pianos, one model which extends the normal range downwards to F0, with one other model going as far as a bottom C0, making a full eight octave range.
Sometimes, extra keys are hidden under a small hinged lid, which can be flipped down to cover the keys and avoid visual disorientation in a pianist unfamiliar with the extended keyboard
Only a very small number of works composed for piano actually use these extra notes. More recently, the Stuart and Sons company has also manufactured extended-range pianos. On their instruments, the range is extended both down the bass to F0 and up the treble to F8 for a full eight octaves. The extra keys are the same as the other keys in appearance.
GET OUT THERE AND HELP SPREAD BEAUTIFUL MUSIC THROUGHOUT MAINE!!!!!!!!!!
Even if there are no piano keys/notes in the cache, you can still visit this cache and log it as a find.
Congrats to Arctic Nomad for FTF and Thanks for the help!!
A special thank you to suzyqavon for finding the cache in it's drowned state and fixing it.
Additional Hints
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