The first thing you’ll want to do is find Middle C. In the centre of the piano you should see three white keys surrounding two black keys. The furthest left of these three keys is Middle C. As a ...

As strange instruments go, this one might take the biscuit. It’s an automatic piano with just four keys, and, as soon as you press a key to play a note, the whole set of four move quickly away, ...

Like so many parents, I have fantasies of my children mastering musical instruments, even though my own musical talents are limited at best and memories of my short-lived piano lessons still fill me ...

In the Classical era, the colours on a piano keyboard were the other way round – the black keys white, and the white keys, black. So, when did it all change? And why are pianos made up of monochrome ...