Let's do it. OK so this might be a piano but its actually also a string instrument. If we look inside you can see that there are stringsof different lengths and thicknesses. At this end the ...

In Florence around 1700, the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori made a breakthrough now credited with paving the way towards the modern piano: for plucked strings, he substituted a ...

while the shortest string sounds as the G flat three and a half octaves above middle C. In technical terms, the instrument’s range is C flat 1 to G flat 7 – a huge six-and-a-half octaves, which is ...