Yamaha's Digital Grand Piano
Why reproduce in digital form something that's worked perfectly fine for hundreds of years as an analog device? That's the question I had for Yamaha about their new AvantGrand piano. The answer: So...
View ArticleAn Electric Piano for Mozarts on a Budget
A $19,000 piano might not seem recession-friendly. But it's a bargain when it's nearly indistinguishable from one that costs $100,000 more. The sole difference: The discount…
View ArticleHoliday Video: Cute Quadrocopter Hovers Above Piano, Picks Out 'Jingle Bells'
Merry Christmas from the flying robots of Switzerland. Watch as a Swiss quadrocopter named “Echo” plays a little something for the holidays. The robot is a test subject at the Swiss Federal Institute...
View ArticleInventions: The Piano That Tunes Itself
Most musicians can tune their instruments whenever they like. The exception is the pianist, who typically isn't trained to tune the piano's 200-plus strings. Instead, both…
View ArticleHaptic Glove Gives You Force-Feedback Piano Lessons
A new wireless glove that can teach piano lessons could help people with spinal cord injuries regain some motor control, according to researchers at Georgia Tech. The…
View ArticleA Famous Pianist Serenades Endangered Tortoises, To Get Them In The Mood
When you're an endangered species, people will do anything to help you get busy. For a few Galapagos tortoises at the London zoo, that meant bringing in the world's most…
View ArticleWhen Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within
Derek Amato stood above the shallow end of the swimming pool and called for his buddy in the Jacuzzi to toss him the football. Then he launched himself through the air, head first, arms outstretched....
View ArticleWhy Hasn't There Been A Multitouch Piano Before Now?
The venerable piano allows for ten (or more!) notes to be played at once, which makes it ideal for composing complex music. Yet there's one thing even the electric piano has never been able to do:...
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