While famed German composer Ludwig van Beethoven never visited the desert, a piano he always wanted, along with a rare modern piano and another centuries-old instrument, will be showcased at the first ...

Scientists confirmed that pianists can alter timbre through touch, using advanced sensors to capture micro-movements that ...

Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.

Sounds hold memories, from a certain song that brings back fond memories to random noises that spark emotions of joy, sadness ...

With a vintage upright and painstakingly assembled songs, the English folk-pop-electronic songwriter’s eighth studio album, “Weather Alive,” is her best. By Jon Pareles Maybe the soot helped. The ...

The National Association of Piano Dealers reported 364,545 sales of new instruments in the United States in 1909. That was four times the number of automobiles manufactured in the country that same ...

Pianist and composer Sophia Subbayya Vastek poses with the 1902 Kimball upright piano she found tucked away in the former building of a controversial church in Troy, N.Y. The piano helped inspire ...

BENZIE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The latest addition to one northern Michigan high school is more than 100 years older than most of the students. But despite its age, it seems to be fitting in ...

SZIGETHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) - In the 19th century, piano makers competed to make special instruments for Hungarian virtuoso Franz Liszt, the world's first piano superstar. Now Hungary is returning ...

Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...