Guess what! A piano is a keyboard (instrument).

[Benjamin Barrett]

On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> On 3/17/2012 10:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> 
>> Another possibility (which could perhaps be easily confirmed or
>> refuted from the Youtube context) -- "piano" is used because the
>> performance is on a piano rather than what Bach wrote for.  Think
>> Glenn Gould and his "The Well-Tempered Clavier".
> 
> I did a Bing search for Bach concerto -- got a lot of hits but in the
> firs half-dozen pages there were only three that were for
> keyboard-driven instruments--two for harpsichord, and one for "Bach, J
> S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BMV1061 (harpsichords or
> pianos) - ... "
> 

Have you tried n-grams? There might be an interesting increase in use for keyboard with respect to classical music, for example. http://books.google.com/ngrams

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA
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