On a recent evening in a second-floor room of the University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, Joshua Pongsitiphon tries out the final chords of a funeral march on a slightly out-of-tune piano.

In the dining room of Central Missionary Baptist Church near Hitch Village, a collection of young children sit simmering in anticipation. In front of them lies a freshly opened keyboard. Now, more ...

With 88 keys and hundreds of internal strings, a standard piano produces a slew of unique sounds and tones. And mastering that complex system doesn’t only result in beautiful music — a new study says ...