It’s an automatic piano with just four keys, and, as soon as you press a key to play a note, the whole set of four move ...

A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black. But who decided this number would be the norm, and why? The king of instruments has played a significant role in music history. From concertos and ...

A new digital piano that’s ultra-compact, simple, sounds great, and comes at an affordable price? Yes, but what's the catch?

The piano is a favorite instrument for experienced musicians and ... A typical piano has 88 keys spanning just over seven octaves. There are other, smaller keyboards or synthesizers that have ...

The keyboard will also be a useful musical tool, but these three classic rock stars made the ol' ivories popular in their respective eras.

I’m a former music retail manager, and I spent much of my nearly 10 years in that part of the industry helping pair musicians with the ultimate digital piano. I have since shifted away from selling ...

Musical innovators and boundary pushers Native Instruments have announced the release of Electric Keys - Reeds Duo, "a pair of virtual instruments that capture the essence of two legendary reed-based ...

So that is a pianoand you play a piano with keys. But what about otherstring instruments? A guitar works by either pluckingthe strings like this… or strumming them like this. Lovely. Just like ...

mainly because we find instruments to be fascinating machines. Few are more complex than the piano, and, as it turns out, few are quite so hackable. Still, we have to admit that this ragtime piano ...

“This is why it is so important to protect not only the design of the instruments but also their original sounds,” Iwata said. A typical contemporary piano has 88 keys that span seven and a ...

Among the more than 3,000 songs that Irving Berlin wrote was a tune called "I Love a Piano." A lyric from it goes: "I know a fine way to treat a Steinway I love to run my fingers o'er the keys ...