Playing piano on a computer keyboard.
Which computer keys play which notes, how to move an octave, and what the browser's piano sound is made of.
By Suraj Kumar2 min read
Your keyboard's middle row is a piano's white keys.
The keys.
A to ; play the white keys from the C shown, and W, E, T, Y, U, O, P the black ones.
Octaves.
The arrow buttons move your keys an octave down or up.
The sound.
The sound is made by your browser from a few tones that fade like a struck string; nothing is downloaded.
Further reading
Topics: virtual piano · play piano with keyboard · online piano keyboard · piano keys · free piano
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