More than 100 descendants of J.S. Bach have been cathedral organists.

The first magazine devoted to the piano was Pianoforte, which was first published in London in 1797.

The first stereo album was Marching Along With the Dukes of Dixieland, Volume 3, which was released in 1958.

In 1925, Walter J. Turner predicted the "The Passing of the Pianoforte" in London New Statesman, and further predicted that the piano would be presented in a concert in 1975 as an antique instrument.

The practice of using plastic for piano keys instead of ivory really took hold in 1973 when Congress banned the importation of ivory to the US.

"God Bless America" was written by Irving Berlin in 1918. After writing the song, he threw it into a trunk, where it remained for twenty years. His profits from the song were donated to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

Sir Elton John won a piano scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 11.

The first typewriters had piano-style keyboards and were the size of kitchen tables.

Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach (son of J.S. Bach) wrote a book called Essay on the Right Way to Play the Clavier which was published in 1753. In it, he devoted 45 pages to the subject of ornaments, and how to play them. No wonder they can be so confusing!

Ignaz Moscheles was probably the first person to ever play a full concert of piano music only. He did this in England in 1837. If he wasn't the first pianist to do this in the world, his was at least the first full piano concert in England.

"Nipper" was the name of the dog RCA Victor used in its trademark "His Master's Voice." Nipper lived from 1884-95, and was born in Bristol, England. He first became the symbol of the Gramophone Company, then the Victor Talking Machine Company, and finally RCA Victor in 1929. For 22 years, the city of Baltimore, Maryland had a 15' statue of Nipper, which they sold in 1975 for $1.

The first concert in Paris where the audience was charged admission was on March 18, 1725. The concerts consisted of sacred music only and were required to be held on church holy days. Lyrics that were sung had to be in Latin. They were called "Concert spirituel."

Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House. He was friends with William Steinway, who was the head of the piano firm and gave the couple a Steinway grand piano as a wedding gift.

A “Belly Builder” is someone who puts together the ribs and soundboard inside a piano.

The first commercial radio station was WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. It started broadcasting on August 20, 1920. KDKA in Pittsburg, PA began broadcasting on August 31,1920.

The earliest upright piano we know of was made in 1739 near Florence, Italy. The case is a little more than 6 1/2 feet tall and sits on a stand that lifts it another 2 1/4 feet.

The grand piano developed into an instrument that answered the acoustical demands of concert settings, the musical needs of professional musicians and serious amateurs, and the social needs of the rich and powerful.

Established in Paris in 1795, The Conservatoire National de Musique was the first modern conservatory.

Although the early piano had fifty-four keys compared to the modern piano’s eighty-eight, it had all the other essentials - wire strings, keys, hammers, dampers and escapement.

Bartolomeo Cristofori (the inventor of the piano) made about twenty pianos in his lifetime.

The song that begins "Take me out to the ball game" was written about a young lady named Katie Casey who compulsively spent all of her money on baseball tickets, peanuts, and popcorn. I knew you'd want to know!