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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that sometimes a little music can add much to a nice afternoon picnic. It’s also well-known that meat cooked over hot coals should be turned …read more Continue reading Finally, A Piano BBQ Grill That You Can Drive Around the Workshop
[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to …read more Continue reading Arduino Piano Tuner is Pitch Perfect
Pianos. People love having them around. My dad’s a prime example; he doesn’t think a house is a home until it’s got a piano in it. Never mind the fact that he can barely play chopsticks – his own piano’s chief function is to send him into fits of rage … Continue reading Steinway’s grand pianos can now sync up and control each other live
Do you know how a piano works? Sure, you press a key and a hammer strikes a string, but what are the finer points of this operation? The intricacy of …read more Continue reading Printed Piano Mechanism Sure is Grand
It’s not every day we see a grand piano with a Raspberry Pi inside, let alone one with 96 motors, but sometimes we get lucky. The contraption in question is one developed by [Konstantin Leonenko], as part of a collaboration …read more
Continue reading Continuous Excitation Piano Machine Looks Nervous, Sounds Grand
Just when you think you’ve seen every possible way to play the piano, [Alessandro Perini] came up with a new one. In this piece, written for the percussionist [Irene Bianco], hand-held motors become a tangible interface between composer, electronic music …read more
Continue reading Tiny Motors Enable Experimental Piano Performance
It’s perhaps not much of a stretch to imagine a computer program that could visually identify which pieces of music were being performed in silent piano-playing videos. A new AI system goes further, however, by digitally reproducing the sound of that p… Continue reading AI tech reproduces realistic music from silent piano-playing videos
We’ve seen a few learning systems that help students to learn at their own pace by having them follow lights to form chords on a guitar or nail songs on a piano keyboard. The latest from Yamaha to do so is the EZ-300, which comes with songs built-in.Co… Continue reading Yamaha makes learning piano EZ with follow-the-light keyboard
Augmented reality has previously allowed us to place furniture in a room before buying, bring photos to life and go gaming on the streets. Now you can have a life-like avatar perform an upbeat version of a Beethoven classic in your front room.Continue … Continue reading AR app puts a virtual classical piano jam in your living room
The piano is a bit of an oddball within the string instrument family. Apart from rarely seeing people carry one around on the bus or use its case to discretely conceal a Tommy Gun, the way the strings are engaged in the first place — by having little hammers attached …read more
Continue reading Fail Of The Week: Putting Guitar Strings On A Piano