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Eighty-eight keys

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A full piano has 88 keys: seven full sets of twelve plus four extra. The lowest note is an A that vibrates 27.5 times a second; each octave up doubles it.

Smaller pianos and keyboards often have 61 or 76 keys, which still carry the same pattern of twos and threes.

One question

A 61-key keyboard is how many full octaves of twelve, with how many left over?

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