A prepared piano is a piano modified by objects placed between its strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effects. Starting about 1939 John Cage had begun to experiment with increasingly unorthodox instruments such as the prepared piano as he moved away from the 12-tone method of his teacher Arnold Schoenberg.
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