Performances in N.Y.C. Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. Phyllis Chen, a trained pianist, ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Music has a decades-long history of embracing electronics. Whether we're talking about plugging a guitar into an amplifier or creating full ...

To most U. S. piano makers, business in recent years has been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in ...