The Different Types of Pianos & Why They All Want to be tuned Differently

One of the coolest things about pianos is their range. If you exclude the pipe organ (and your cousin’s digital keyboard he’s been using to make dubstep since 2012), the piano has the largest range of any instrument — certainly any stringed one. That means one instrument has to produce both thunder-low bass and crystalline highs, and that creates a fun design problem.