Now, get ready to watch a grand piano string fly off its pin, like an over-exerted elastic band. The video below, seen over 100,000 times on YouTube, shows German classical pianist Heinz Lengersdorf ...

Regular pianos use copper-wound strings on the bass notes to reduce their length. Mr Mann wanted to see just how much steel piano wire he'd need to hit the same pitch. "I found out that it was ...

During the piano's genesis in the early 1700s, iron was used to make music wire, but the material's tension and strength limited its ability to produce loud sound, Giordano said. As metallurgy ...

Van der Zant said: "And as such it is like tightening a piano wire or guitar string. You can, as it were, tune the wire." The researchers published an article on the subject this week in the ...