the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake. This page is about the idiom the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake. Meaning. If something is the icing on the cake, or the frosting on the cake, it makes a good situation or a good result even better. For example The fifty thousand dollars the government will give to every athlete who wins a gold medal in the Olympics will be the icing on the cake for them.
Quick Answer. The standard piano has 52 white keys. It also has 36 black keys for a total of 88 keys. The average piano has 220 strings, but that number tends to vary from instrument to instrument. Continue Reading.
Piano Notes: on the keyboard and on the staff. Piano notes are easy to learn, both on the staff and on the keyboard. The following images should be helpful for familiarization with the piano keys and how they correspond to the music. First you'll see the basic 38 notes every pianist should know by sight on the grand staff (19 notes in bass clef, 19 notes in treble clef).