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For as popular as the piano is in music studios, homes, and schools, it almost defies logic. Compared to a guitar, harmonica, or drum set, pianos are incredibly complex machines …read more Continue reading Piano Escapement Migrates to Drum Kit
Not only are pianos beautiful musical instruments that have stood the test of many centuries of time, they’re also incredible machines. Unfortunately, all machines wear out over time, which means …read more Continue reading Extremely Rare Electric Piano Restoration
Part of the reason there are always free pianos on your digital classifieds listing of choice is that, at least economically speaking, a piano is less of a musical instrument …read more Continue reading 3D Printing A Piano Action
Regular ding-dong doorbells are fun and all, but it can be nice to put something a little more special by your front door. To that end, [Arpan Mondal] built this …read more Continue reading Piano Doorbell Adds Music To Your Home
[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was …read more Continue reading Piano Gets an Arduino Implant
Learning to play piano is a hard slog, and many people – myself included – tend to start well, and then lose momentum before giving up entirely. Roli is hoping to keeping students engaged with a gesture-tracking AI teacher called the Airwave.Continue R… Continue reading Roli Airwave brings piano learning to the third dimension
There’s a scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where a little flap in the wall flips down to reveal a small organ embedded there. Gene Wilder plays a …read more Continue reading 2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A Piano-Controlled Smart Home
Pianos can become the heart of a home, and some become intergenerational heirlooms loaded with memories. Letting them go once they’re unplayable can be very hard, but an Australian sculptor has found a way to resurrect them, to jaw-dropping effect.Cont… Continue reading Beloved family pianos are reborn as stunning phoenix sculptures
A couple of decades ago one of *the* smartphone accessories to have was a Bluetooth keyboard which projected the keymap onto a table surface where letters could be typed in …read more Continue reading This Piano Does Not Exist
Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more curious method …read more Continue reading The Trans-Harmonium is a Strange Kind of Radio-Musical Instrument