![]() Fun fact : The Imperial Bösendorfer, a specialty grand piano built by the Bösendorfer company, has ninety-seven keys – a total of 8 full octaves! 3. Keyboards can have between 25 and 88, with many clocking in at 61. The standard piano has 88 keys: 52 white keys and 36 blacks keys. Fun fact: until the mid-19th century, the colors were reversed! 2. (Hence the phrase, “Tickle the ivories!”) Today, the wooden keys are coated in colored plastic, but the traditional coloring continues. Why black and white? Because of the original materials used to make them: ebony and ivory. ![]() Piano keys (like other keyboard instruments) are arranged in patterns of black and white keys so that we can more easily identify them. How well do you know the piano? Here are 10 things about the piano that everyone should know! 1.
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