The first thing you’ll want to do is find Middle C. In the centre of the piano you should see three white keys surrounding two black keys. The furthest left of these three keys is Middle C. As a ...

In a world filled with portable 25-note mini MIDI keyboards, you might think that a grand piano that offers more than the traditional 88 keys would be out of step with the times, but that’s not the ...

As strange instruments go, this one might take the biscuit. 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 quickly away, ...

Like so many parents, I have fantasies of my children mastering musical instruments, even though my own musical talents are limited at best and memories of my short-lived piano lessons still fill me ...

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 ...

University of Vermont music professor David Feurzeig is aiming to perform a free concert in every one of the state’s 252 municipalities in his “Play Every Town Project.” Photo by Kevin ...