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.
So the piano keyboard actually has only 12 different keys; 7 white keys and 5 black keys. The rest of the keys are just repeated with either higher or lower pitch. 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).