A standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white and 36 black ... It was here that the ‘pianoforte’, or simply the ‘the piano’, found its name. After word got out of Cristofori’s miraculous musical invention, ...

Since first appearing in the middle of the 16th century, the harpsichord - with its mechanically ... to depress the key. As well as the Walter instrument, Mozart used a piano by Franz Jakob ...

[Ramon] found an old piano in Craigslist for a few hundred dollars, and once it made its way into the workshop ... A series of pipes leading to each key translate these small holes into notes.