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...

Piano Piano, by Davide Cali, Eric Heliot and Randi Rivers. Charlesbridge Publishing (www. charlesbridge. com; (800) 225-3214), 2007. 24 pp. $15.95. Illustrated in fantastical, whimsical cartoon style, this children's book may have a more poignant message for adults. Originally published in French, Piano...

After 300 Years, The Appeal Of Cristofori's Remarkable Invention Remains Undiminished Striving to create a more expressive harpsichord, sometime around 1700 Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the escapement action, a marvel of engineering that enabled a hammer to strike a string with varying degrees...

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...