In the late 1880s, piano manufacturer Steinway created the 88-key piano. Other manufacturers followed suit, and Steinway’s model has been the standard ever since. An 88-key piano has seven octaves ...

Why are there 88 keys on a piano? Why not 44, or 200? Let’s go back to the days before the piano, when composers wrote for the harpsichord, which has just 60 keys, and each key is its own note, its ...

The piano in question, one of six the maestro used, had been built for him by Steinway in 1941 ... there’s something wrong with this key!”, he told Horowitz that he could fix it in half ...