I Love a Piano! was the hit song of Irving Berlin's 1915 Broadway show Stop! Look! Listen! It's with a similar exclamatory devotion that pianist and writer Stuart Isacoff has given us A Natural ...

This entertaining new book about the origins and the importance of the piano starts off not with the instrument’s inventor (Bartolomeo Cristofori) or its most famous early advocate (Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Yes, Virginia, there is a piano in every traditional undergraduate student house at Smith! College historians aren’t sure when this special residential custom began, but some pianos in the campus ...

The restoration of this WWII-era piano tells a deeper story of hope and resilience. On this episode of You Oughta Know, see the restoration of a WWII-era piano, which tells a deeper story of hope and ...

Writing about music is notoriously difficult. Because it's abstract, most authors on the subject either rely on technicalities or yield to ambiguity. Stuart Isacoff does neither. With the enjoyable "A ...

Dave Postma is passionate about pianos. With that comes the love of good music and beautiful wood. But Postma doesn't just tune pianos and repair and restore them. Sometimes he tears them apart.

Pianist Keith Ingham came to New York from England in 1979. While in England, he had been a pianist of choice for touring U.S. greats in Europe, such as trumpet great Roy Eldridge, Henry "Red" Allen, ...

Steinways are often referred to as the Rolls Royce of pianos. The company has a more than 150 year old history that began on Varrick Street in Manhattan’s West Village. Steinway and Sons was founded ...

Alexander D’Von Boggs casually leaned against a dark wood, upright Chickering & Sons piano built almost 150 years ago in Boston. “This here’s Theodore Roosevelt’s piano,” D’Von Boggs said with a smile ...