An 88-key piano has seven octaves plus three lower notes (B, B flat and A) below the bottom C. It has 52 white keys and 36 black keys (sharps and flats), with each octave made up of seven white keys ...

Williams College senior Ridgway M. Banks constructed a homemade harpsichord in the cellar of his Cambridge home during vacation periods.

My harpsichord is by Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Florentine builder and inventor who created the first pianoforte in 1700 whilst working for Prince Ferdinando de Medici as keeper of his collection ...