CG Matter modified his keyboard to a pattern of three white keys and a black key that automatically moves to the next notes ...

The instrument had a brand-new hammer and damper mechanism, two keyboards and a range of four octaves (49 keys). Poet and journalist Scipione Maffei described it in 1711 as a ‘gravicembalo col piano, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The expectation is that the keys will react differently to the touch than they do in a regular MIDI keyboard, an organ, or even a stage piano, and feel is often more important than sound.