Why are pianos black?

So most pianos are black because it was easier / cheaper for companies to manufacture them. As a corollary to this topic, it is actually also the same reason why many harpsichord manuals have reversed key colors.

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You're unlikely to see a classical piano concert with a piano that is anything but black. One of the reasons is that 95% of all concert pianists are Steinway Artists. Another reason is that black Steinways are the least expensive. A Steinway artist has to have a performing career, agrees to feature the words "Steinway Piano" on his programs, and agrees to exclusively use Steinway pianos in public performances. In exchange for this, Steinway guarantees to make a piano available (for a price) at any concert he plays. To accomplish this, Steinway has its dealers participate in the Concert and Artist program, maintaining a separate inventory of several C&A pianos, and handling maintenance, tuning, pickup and delivery. Now, since black Steinways are the least expensive (see Tim's answer for why), it follows that a dealer will provide only black pianos for concerts. The current list price for "Satin Ebony" is currently $157,379, whereas Mahogany, the cheapest wood finish, is $182,700, so we're not talking about small numbers here.

An exception you might see is this one:

This is Steinway's 500,000th commemorative piano, which sometimes makes the rounds. I got to attend a concert with Ruth Laredo playing it soon after it was made, and it is the only classical piano concert I've ever attended where the piano wasn't black. (In fact, it was a two-piano concert, and the other one was black.) Classical pianists are much less concerned with appearance than they are with tone, so they don't really care what color the piano is for the most part. If a concert pianist fell in love with the tone of a piano that wasn't black, and had the means to be able to ship it to all of his concerts, then maybe you would see a concert on a differently-colored piano. The only ones I can think of who used their own pianos are Horowitz, whose Steinway was black (still is, actually), and Victor Borge and his Bösendorfer, which was also black. In the end, I'd say that the reason that big-time rockers have a lot of different-colored pianos is because they have enough money to buy whatever piano they want and ship it wherever they want.

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