Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ABC Classic lifts the lid on the piano

Piano technician Ara Vartoukian takes apart a grand piano in How a Piano Works. Australians love tickling the ivories, with a staggering 100,000 new pianos and keyboards imported into Australia every ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Playing piano is good for your brain and it’s never too late to start

Finding the time and discipline to learn an instrument stops many from reaping the cognitive, physical, and social benefits of playing music. To show that it's never too late, Classic Drive presenter ...
rnz

Classic Countdown: Vote for your favourite piano music

Caption:Help us find New Zealand's favourite piece of piano music in RNZ's Classic Countdown.Photo credit:OC Gonzalez for Unsplash We’re inviting music lovers to join in RNZ Concert’s Classic ...
American Songwriter

3 1970s Classic Rock Songs Featuring the Piano that Continue to Blow Minds

When young people are told by their parents to practice the piano, rarely do any of them think they might be playing in the hippest rock group ever in a few short years. Most of the time, we think of ...
Classic FM

Footage unearthed of actual Dmitri Shostakovich playing the piano

A video featuring the great composer at the keys has come to light, and his playing is as incredibly virtuosic and mind-blowingly fast as we had hoped. A video has come to light, featuring the great ...