This is not your grandmother's piano lesson. Picture instead a classroom at Stiern Middle School in east Bakersfield, filled with 26 Yamaha piano keyboards and nearly that many students hunched over ...

If you look at a music or piano keyboard, start by locating the note C. As we already know (if you have read our article on ...

We have seen isomorphic (piano) keyboards before ... but the basic idea is that all the note names are grouped together by color; C flat, C natural, and C sharp are all blue, for example.