Before the piano was invented, composers wrote a lot of music for the harpsichord, which has just 60 keys. This meant that everything they wrote was limited to the harpsichord’s five-octave range. But ...

The L1 is the successor to Keybird’s 5-octave X1 model, but is even more compact. The company says that it's “dedicated to bringing the acoustic piano to broad audiences and to people who love the ...

His upcoming album, Piano Composed, was recorded on “the most incredible instrument,” he tells Behind the Setlist.

A typical contemporary piano has 88 keys that span seven and a half octaves. The steel strings are stretched tightly over the instrument’s frame to produce powerful, resonant sounds even when ...

As she smoked, Argerich, one of classical music’s most elusive and enigmatic artists, obsessed about how she had played the opening flourish of Schumann’s piano concerto that evening with the ...

Level up your music-making with these simple but effective tricks that can be easily used by those with zero knowledge of ...

At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky ...

Some keyboard instrument builders of the present day, such as the Fazioli piano makers and Bizzi harpsichords ... so close you feel that if the seven-octave expanse of the keyboard added just ...

The sprightly synths that open “Wander Nights” teeter on the edge of a minor-key transition until a full ... attack the jubilant parade of piano and strings on “Give It to Em.” ...