Step 1: The layout of black and white keys has been standard on most piano and keyboard instruments for centuries, but how do you find your way around it? With 88 keys, a full-size piano keyboard ...
In the Classical era, the colours on a piano keyboard were the other way round – the black keys white, and the white keys, black. So, when did it all change? And why are pianos made up of monochrome ...
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds was in a hotel lobby somewhere in Asia when he first saw a modern version of a player piano. This particular one was tapping out The Beatles' "Yesterday." He ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a world filled with portable 25-note mini MIDI keyboards, you might think that a grand piano ...
A Romanian concert pianist has unofficially broken a Guinness World Record for the most notes hit on the piano in 30 seconds, hitting the highest note on a piano a staggering 500 times. Thurzó Zoltán ...