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52.94The piano is not one instrument in arranging terms

Your hands can imply:

  • bass
  • drums
  • guitar
  • horn solo
  • sax section
  • brass section
  • choir

Not simultaneously at full strength.

But sequentially and selectively.

This is why role rotation has been such a recurring idea.