Piano

Heavy, unwieldy, expensive, requiring expert tuning and maintenance, the piano is an unlikely blues instrument. Nevertheless, throughout blues history, the piano has been second only to the guitar in popularity. Despite having a keyboard lacking quarter tones and the capability for tone bending, its unique quality of being both percussive and melodic has enabled generations of blues pianists to coax a blues feeling from the piano by dint of an inspired combination of slurred notes and crushed chords...