The layout of a piano keyboard is perhaps the most recognisable pattern in music – a black and white staggered staircase that sits on the front of every piano, organ and synthesizer and – back in the ...

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds was in a hotel lobby somewhere in Asia when he first saw a modern version of a player piano. This particular one was tapping out The Beatles' "Yesterday." He ...

Piano geniuses play ghost notes. Those are the sounds made by depressing a piano key halfway, without making a sound, and playing another chord at the same time. But what do the ghosts play? You can ...