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• The inventor of what has become today’s well-known instrument is credited to an Italian harpsichord maker, Bartolomeo Cristofori, who, around 1700, developed the first piano.

He called it “un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte,” which translates, “a keyboard of cypress with soft and loud.” It was later shortened to “pianoforte,” then later, just “piano.” Cristofori’s first piano had small leather-covered hammers.

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• Although Cristofori produced about 20 pianos, his first love was harpsichords, and he went back to their production. Three of his original pianos survive today, including a 1720 model, with four octaves, which can be found in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. • In the mid-1700s, the keyboard expanded to five octaves. The Industrial Revolution ushered in a more powerful piano sound, with the advent of high-quality piano wire and the casting of massive single-piece iron frames. By 1810, keyboards had six octaves, and the modern-day seven octaves by 1820. In 1826, leather and cotton hammer coverings were replaced by felt.

• The piano has earned the nickname “King of the Instruments,” because of its phenomenal range.

It spans from the lowest note that can be played on a double-bassoon to the highest note that can be played on a piccolo, a full orchestral range.

The piano is considered a member of the percussion family because it only makes a sound when a hammer hits a string. It’s an independent instrument, meaning it can play melody and accompaniment at the same time.

• About 70% of a piano is wood. There are more than 12,000 parts, of which 10,000 are moving parts. Keys are generally made from hardwoods such as fir, spruce, or sugar pine. Up until the 1950s, piano keys were covered with ebony and ivory (hence, the phrase “tickle the ivories”).

When the use of ivory was banned, and ebony became rare and very expensive, the switch was made to plastic.

• The term “grand” was first used to describe a piano in 1777. A grand piano has a horizontal frame with strings extending out from the keyboard.

Different sizes have different names. A concert grand measures between 7’ 3” and 9’ 10”, which a parlor grand is 5’ 7” to 7’ 3”. A baby grand is about 4’ 11”. ...continued

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• Although most modern pianos have 88 keys – 52 white and 36 black – the Austrian Bosendorfer company’s Imperial concert grand has nine extra bass keys.

• The lower notes of a piano each have two strings, but the majority of the keys’ hammers strike three strings each time a note is played.

This accounts for the fuller sound of the piano as opposed to a harpsichord, on which a single string is plucked. There are a total of 230 strings to accommodate the 88 keys. Each string has about 165 pounds of tension. The greater the tension of the string, the better the sound quality and the louder the sound.

• Because thicker strings vibrate at a lower rate than a thin string, they produce lower pitches.

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• On Sept. 10, 1897, London taxi driver George Smith, 25, becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. In 1936, a professor of toxicology patented the Drunkometer, a balloon-like device into which people would breathe to determine whether they were inebriated.

• On Sept. 13, 1916, author Roald Dahl ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach") is born in South Wales. In World War II, he became a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and was shot down, suffering serious injuries. He saved a piece of his femur and later used it as a paperweight in his office.

• On Sept. 15, 1931, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Cleveland Indians to clinch their thirdstraight American League pennant under legendary manager Connie Mack. Mack made a career of developing star players and then, once the players' talents had peaked, selling their contracts for a profit.

• On Sept. 16, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service and Training Act, which required all male citizens between the ages of 26 and 35 to register for the military draft.

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• At one time, the honor of world’s longest grand piano belonged to an 11’8”-long instrument manufactured by the Charles H. Challen Company in 1935. It weighed over 2 tons. In 2005, at age 16, New Zealand teenager Adrian Mann decided to build a piano entirely by hand, working in a farm shed. Four years later, the result was an amazing instrument measuring 18.7 feet in length. After a nationwide tour of New Zealand, the piano returned home to Mann’s workshop, available for public view.

• The first electric piano was introduced in the late 1940s. Metal tines replaced the strings and an electromagnetic pickup similar to those on an electric guitar was used. Digital pianos were brought to the market in 1980. Yamaha, Japan’s first piano manufacturer, established in 1887, introduced its popular Clavinova digital piano in 1985.

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• The artichoke plant grows to a height of 4.6 to 6.6 feet tall, and can spread up to 9 feet in diameter. An artichoke is really just a flower bulb that hasn’t bloomed, and if it’s left alone, a lovely pink or purple flower, 7 inches in diameter, will appear out of the globe. Each flower head has silvery-green leaves 20 to 32 inches long. The part of this vegetable that we eat is actually the bud, with the fleshy heart at the end of each leaf petal.

• The average artichoke plant produces about 20 artichokes a year.

• Artichokes are the primary flavor of popular Italian liqueur called Cynar. This 33-proof dark brown liqueur, launched in 1952, has a bittersweet flavor, and is usually mixed with orange juice.

• Although artichokes are a little labor-intensive to eat, the reward is well worth the effort. They are rich in antioxidants, Vitamins C, K, and B-complex. They also contain copper, calcium potassium, iron, manganese, and phosphorus. A substance called cynarin present in artichokes helps improve liver and kidney functions, aiding in detoxing the body and improving digestion. Some studies indicate that extract from artichoke leaves may slow down the growth of leukemia cells.

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Grand Forks Mosquito Control has identified WNV in mosquitoes and birds collected from the Grand Forks region. We cannot eliminate this virus. The Health Department urges citizens to take personal precautions to avoid mosquito bites. The type of mosquito most common for transmitting WNV is present in our area and is most active from dusk until dawn. This virus can be deadly. Help fight the bite and prevent mosquito-borne disease.

How can people reduce their chance of getting WNV? The most effective way to prevent WNV is to avoid mosquito bites: • Wear long sleeves and pants when outdoors from dusk through dawn.

• Apply insect repellents when you go outdoors. Repellents containing DEET provide the best protection.

• Reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home by eliminating standing water from containers such as flowerpots, gutters, buckets, pool covers, discarded tires, and birdbaths. Anything that holds water for more than a week could be producing mosquitoes.

How do people get infected with WNV? Most people get infected with WNV by an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on infected birds. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to humans and other animals. In a very small number of cases, West Nile virus has been spread through blood transfusions, organ transplants, and from mother to baby during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding.

What are the symptoms of WNV? No symptoms in most people. Most people (70-80%) who become infected with West Nile virus do not develop any symptoms.

Febrile illness in some people. About 1 in 5 people who are infected will develop a fever with other symptoms such as headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash. Most people with this type of West Nile virus disease recover completely, but fatigue and weakness can last for weeks or months.

Severe symptoms in a few people. Less than 1% of people who are infected will develop a serious neurologic illness such as encephalitis or meningitis (inflammation of the brain or surrounding tissues).

The symptoms of neurologic illness can include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, tremors, seizures, or paralysis.

Recovery from severe disease may take several weeks or months. Some of the neurologic effects may be permanent. About 10 percent of people who develop neurologic infection due to West Nile virus will die.

Who is at risk for serious illness if infected with WNV? Serious illness can occur in people of any age. However, people over 60 years of age are at the greatest risk for severe disease. People with certain medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and people who have received organ transplants, are also at greater risk for serious illness.

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• It was Scott Adams, best known as the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, who made the following observation: "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."

• According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word that has the largest number of different meanings is "set"; it takes 26 pages to detail them all.

• As fall approaches, here's some good news: Except for the queens, all wasps die in the autumn.

• There are those who feel that we should adopt the metric system of measurement, claiming that our current system is outdated and archaic. To go truly archaic, though, we could start measuring things in flags, baronies, falls, roods, townships and hides. Yes, those are actual terms of measurement. They equal, respectively, 25 square feet, 4,000 acres, 342 square feet, a quarter of an acre, 36 square miles and 10 acres.

• Do you suffer from misoneism? Quite a few people these days seem to; it's a hatred or fear of change or innovation.

• Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, it's estimated that Americans eat a whopping 818 hot dogs every second.

• In 1938, Fortune magazine published a prediction that, in hindsight, turns out to have been rather egregiously off the mark: "Few scientists foresee any serious or practical use for atomic energy. They regard the atom-splitting experiments as useful steps in the attempt to describe the atom more accurately, not as the key to the unlocking of any new power." *** Thought for the Day: "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross © 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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No, Tidbits isn’t growling at you! We’re just bringing you an odd assortment of words that begin with the letters "GR-".

• Graminivorous is a big word with a very simple meaning. It just refers to creatures that feed on grass or the seeds of grass, which encompasses a wide variety of living things, from insects to locusts and grasshoppers, birds, horses, cattle, hippopotamuses, and giant pandas.

• Grampus has nothing to do with your family lineage. It refers to a species of dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, named for the first person to document it publicly, Antoine Risso. These are large dolphins, about 10 feet long, although they might reach a length of 13 feet. It’s not unusual for them to weigh 1,100 lbs. These dolphins are found in temperate and tropical waters, including the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea. They even travel as far north as the Gulf of Alaska, journeying in pods of 10 to 50 members, organized by age and gender.

• A griffon is a mythical creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head, wings, and front talons of an eagle. It combined the king of the beasts, the lion, with the king of birds, the eagle, making it the very powerful and majestic king of all creatures. They were believed to be the guardians of treasure and precious possessions, and were said to lay eggs similar to gold nuggets. In the canine world, griffons are a collection of breeds that were originally hunting dogs, including wirehaired pointers griffons. A Brussels griffon is a small, playful, terrier-like breed that barks shrilly when excited.

• If you’ve delivered a speech described as grandiloquent, it’s not a compliment! It means the tone of your speech was pompous, pretentious, too fancy, used excessive verbal ornamentation, and was long-winded. In other words, next time … tone it down!

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