The piano may be the best known and loved of all musical instruments. It also has the broadest range of any instrument, so music for all other instruments can be composed on it. It can be played solo, but most other instruments, including the voice,...

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers. The hammers immediately rebound allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are...

A French-made piano that Frederic Chopin brought to London late in his life has been identified in a collection in England, the owner of the instrument said Wednesday.The piano built by the Paris company of Camille Pleyel, Chopin's favored piano-maker, is in the Cobbe Collection...

An ophthalmologist from Birmingham, Ala., bested 74 other competitors from 23 states and seven nations to win the Van Cliburn Foundation's Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs.Drew Mays, 47, took top honors Sunday for his 30-minute recital of Beethoven's "Waldstein" sonata and Liszt's "Mephisto...

"'Hey Jude,'" someone in the audience yells out.Gabriela Montero sits at the piano, taps out the bare melody line, pauses and stares at the ceiling through her flowing blond hair and then plays the tune, complete with harmony.But it's sad, in the minor mode. Soon,...

The husband of the late British pianist Joyce Hatto, who passed off recordings by other artists as those of his wife, says he would do the same thing again but would not release the recordings to the public, according to a newspaper interview.William Barrington-Coupe told...