How Many Keys Does a Piano Have?

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Published 2021-03-18

Here's an easy way to remember the number of keys on a piano (black and white combined, and separately).

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:17 BBQ Piano
0:29 88 Keys
0:40 Exceptions To the Rule
0:56 Steinway's Standard
1:06 White Keys Only?
1:38 52 White Keys
1:54 36 Black Keys
2:06 Final Note

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Image attributions

Grand piano
Copyright Steinway & Sons, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

BBQ
Lightfusegetaway at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

BBQ Cooking
Brian Chu, CC BY 2.5 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Video attributions

"Yosuke Yamashita, Burning Piano 2008"
KusLab • Yosuke Yamashita, Burning Piano 2008

"BBQ White Smoke, Dirty & Bad smoke!"
Comparison Cooking • BBQ White Smoke, Dirty & Bad smoke!

All Comments (11)

@AtselWarawara 3 years ago

Thanks Alex! Glad to see you back!
@Person.1234 3 years ago

52 is also the number of cards in a playing deck!
@drdre4397 3 years ago

He's back!
@ryklatortuga4146 3 years ago

Do you know the pianos on my foot? You hum it, I'll play it.
@Bobby-wo4ub 1 year ago

Thank you, that's what I needed
@shayknox1023 3 years ago

I JUST LOVE YOUR ENERGY!
@sawik5 3 years ago

YAAAYYY I WAS WAITING FOR YOU SO LOOOOONG BROTHER!
@Hacker_lyx 3 years ago

hope you're doing well, it's been a while.
@rzeka 3 years ago

0:27 is that a little boy in Spain?
@flymypg 3 years ago

Next, PLEASE try to make sheet music comprehensible to me! I gave up piano lessons as a kid because the page never made sense. (edit: Well, OK, C-major made sense, but nothing else.) I could only play by rote memorization, which was frustrating beyond all measure. My mom cried when I quit because I had long arms with large hands and narrow fingers, as if I were genetically optimized for the piano. My Mom could sight read, her sister, could play by ear, and I had perfect pitch and loved music. Everyone thought I'd be good at it, right up until I quit in frustration: I was never able to look at sheet music and hear it in my mind. I gave up on making music for a decade until I found guitar tab sheets. Despite 4 years of incessant practice, I was never able to to progress beyond rhythm guitar (chords and strumming). I again gave up making music, this time for 35 years. Then about 5 years ago my sister was given a ukulele, which was love at first sight for me, and I now have 5 of them and am FINALLY having a blast making music! Even got a few voice lessons so I could sound better than the ukulele (a low bar, I know). Still, learning to read sheet music remains on my bucket list. Help?