This is not your grandmother's piano lesson. Picture instead a classroom at Stiern Middle School in east Bakersfield, filled with 26 Yamaha piano keyboards and nearly that many students hunched over ...
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 ...