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Play with your mouse, touch, or the **A–K** keys on your keyboard.Piano samples: Salamander Grand Piano (CC-BY 3.0)This is a playable piano you can use right in your browser, with real recorded piano sound. Click the keys, tap them on a touchscreen, or play with your computer keyboard.*Here’s how to play it, how the computer-keyboard mapping works, and a couple of ways to use it for practice.*## How to playClick or tap a key to play its note. On a computer keyboard, the A-to-K row plays the central octave — A is middle C, the letters to its right step up the white keys, and the W, E, T, Y, U keys above play the black notes in between. Turn on “Show note names” to label the white keys while you learn where they are.## Why a virtual piano helpsYou don’t need an instrument to try out a scale, test a chord, or check what a melody sounds like. Because the layout matches a real piano, what you learn here — where the notes sit, how chords are shaped — carries straight over to an acoustic or digital piano.## Ways to use it* Find a note from the note finder, then play it here to hear it in context.* Build a chord from the chord finder and play its notes together.* Pick out a simple tune by ear, one note at a time.This virtual piano is a full, playable keyboard in your browser: three octaves of real, recorded piano sound you can play with a mouse, a touchscreen, or your computer keyboard. Below is how the keyboard is laid out, how to find your way around it, and how to start playing notes, chords, scales, and your first tune.## How a piano keyboard is laid out