A performance by composer and percussionist Eli Keszler will involve an installation transmitting sounds from outside Boston’s City Hall into its cavernous interior using piano wire.

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.

Not long ago, the daily newspaper in Buffalo, New York, ran a story under the headline, The Day the Music Died. Not all music, but music of a most unusual sort. More than a century ago, the piano ...

It is composed of 24 tunable high-tension piano wires attached to a wooden base that acts as an acoustic resonance chamber to amplify the sounds created by the vibration of the strings.

Dutch Scientists Make World's Smallest Piano Wire Date: November 28, 2006 Source: Delft University of Technology Summary: Researchers from Delft University of Technology and FOM Foundation have ...

ACCORDING to a recent report by Science Service, pianos are now being constructed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A., with no strings or wires. To produce the tones, strips of steel not more than a ...