📚 The Piano

The keyboard’s two centuries: makers, players, pedagogy, and the instrument sitting at the center of so much written music.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject piano in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	1753	19
	Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Complete	Charles-Louis Hanon	1722	15
	A creative approach to music fundamentals	William Duckworth	1981	14
	The young pianist	Joan Last	1954	12
	Contemporary Class Piano	Elyse Mach	1976	12
	Piano Mastery	Harriette Brower	1915	10
	The Piano	Jeremy Siepmann	1996	10
	The Piano Book	Larry Fine	1987	9
	Well-known piano solos	Charles W. Wilkinson	1915	8
	Letters to a young lady on the art of playing the pianoforte	Carl Czerny	1840	7
	The piano	Cyril Ehrlich	1976	7
	Pierce piano atlas	Pierce, Bob.	1965	6
	Music at your fingertips	Ruth Slenczynska	1961	5
	The piano teacher's source book	Maurice Hinson	1974	5
	Piano Servicing, Tuning & Rebuilding	Arthur A. Reblitz	1976	5
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano	Brad Hill	2001	5
	Play Piano in a Flash!	Scott Houston	2001	5
	How to Play the Piano	James Rhodes	2016	5
	Playing the piano for pleasure	Charles Cooke	1941	4
	A guide to restringing	Travis, John W.	1961	4
	The well-prepared piano	Richard Bunger	1973	4
	Piano Notes	Charles Rosen	2002	4
	Basic principles in pianoforte playing	Josef Lhévinne	1924	3
	The pianist's guide to pedaling	Joseph Banowetz	1985	3
	What every pianist needs to know about the body	Thomas Carson Mark	2003	3
	Scales, chords and arpeggios for piano	Unknown author	1948	2
	Piano	James Bastien	1985	2
	Steinway service manual	Max Matthias	1990	2
	Piano for dummies	Blake Neely	1998	2
	Junior Hanon for the Piano	Small, Allan (EDT)/ Manus, Morton (EDT)	2006	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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