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.
White Keys and the Basic Notes. Here is a piano keyboard diagram with the note names of the white keys, or the basic notes: You can see that the 7 basic notes are repeated over and over. But each time the pitch (how high or low the tone is) is sounding one octave higher (if you go to the right).