To celebrate World Piano Day, which always takes place on the 88th day of the year, we take a look at the history of the instrument, and how it came to have the 88-piece keyboard it boasts today. Read ...

The lowest key on a keyboard registers at around 27.5 hertz and the highest at 4,186 hertz, depending on the precise tuning. Adding more keys wouldn’t add too much value to the piano because it ...

McCarthy Music’s “Illuminating Piano” lights up the keys with embedded RGB LEDs to help aspiring pianists as they learn to play. The keyboard connects to an iPad or Windows PC via Bluetooth ...

In a piano the string is not plucked with a quill, but struck with a felt-covered hammer. When the performer presses a piano key softly, the hammer will strike the string slowly, making a soft sound.

LUMI Keys is essentially an all-in-one piano keyboard, and tutor. It connects to a LUMI app, which has interactive lessons and a content library.

We love a good musical build, and this one is no exception. For their ECE4760 final project, [Wendian Jiang], [Hanchen Jin], and [Lin Wang] of Cornell built the nicest-looking touch piano we’… ...

The larger keyboard adds notes at both the bass and treble ends, and though some will doubtless consider it unnecessary, Stuart is adamant that it should be the new standard. "We want to continue with ...

Beethoven only had about 70 keys on his piano and would surely have used more notes if he'd had them, he says. But don't focus too much on the keys, Willems says.