Yuja Wang in your living room.

[cuttime]

I'll get one of these after i get my new MacBook pro.

https://gizmodo.com/steinways-self-play ... nt=gizmodo

[stubbsonic]

This kind of technology has existed for a long time, but they are bringing it forward and integrating it with the live-stream concept.

There was a Yamaha upright piano where I worked that had MIDI enabled player-piano functionality. Transmitting a stream of MIDI events over the internet is requires pretty little bandwidth.

If you got rid of the piano and just had the MIDI stream coming into a laptop with PIanoteq or some other nice VI piano, you'd get a nice sound experience-- and in some ways it would be cool because you could choose YOUR favorite piano and reverb, etc. You could even take some performance by some amazing virtuoso and have it trigger some fart samples.

Years ago our city's airport had a grand-player-piano playing seemingly non-stop on one of the concourses. I wonder how much maintenance that piano required.

[frankf]

Both the Yamaha Disklavier and this Steinway are still being sold and both are real pianos with recording and playback capabilities and the streaming possibilities. The maintenance is equal to that needed for a piano plus the recording and playback mechanisms. My piano tuner/technician back in the day used to service the Disklavier for Yamaha and told me service could be a lot of work. That was almost 30 years ago however.

Player pianos with the piano rolls were a hit with families and at parties in the pre record era. My aunt had one she inherited from my grandmother. They brought the joy of music to many homes!


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[stubbsonic]

I was wondering about that airport piano's service needs only because I was thinking it played 24/7, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

I can only imagine that player mechanism would be a massive job to repair/maintain.

[mikehalloran]

Both the Yamaha Disklavier and this Steinway are still being sold and both are real pianos with recording and playback capabilities and the streaming possibilities. The maintenance is equal to that needed for a piano plus the recording and playback mechanisms. My piano tuner/technician back in the day used to service the Disklavier for Yamaha and told me service could be a lot of work. That was almost 30 years ago however.

Player pianos with the piano rolls were a hit with families and at parties in the pre record era. My aunt had one she inherited from my grandmother. They brought the joy of music to many homes!

Yamaha now owns Bösendorfer and will install the Disklavier if you got the money, Honey.
https://www.boesendorfer.com/en/pianos/ ... er-edition

[ed belknap]

Thread title is misleading!

[frankf]

Although I can see the advantage in certain circumstances I’m not a big fan of “ player pianos “ of any kind. Whenever I see and hear a human playing in a public space I stop to listen and watch. Watching keys fly up and down on their own is exciting for a minute. Watching someone apply their craft and make music is another thing altogether. Knowing a musician is getting paid to play! Yes to that too.
If you haven’t guessed, I’m a piano player who’s had many solo piano gigs in my time. Happy new year to all!


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[HCMarkus]

Although I can see the advantage in certain circumstances I’m not a big fan of “ player pianos “ of any kind. Whenever I see and hear a human playing in a public space I stop to listen and watch. Watching keys fly up and down on their own is exciting for a minute. Watching someone apply their craft and make music is another thing altogether. Knowing a musician is getting paid to play! Yes to that too.
If you haven’t guessed, I’m a piano player who’s had many solo piano gigs in my time. Happy new year to all!


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+ Infinity... on all counts, including the New Year's wishes!

One comment: I would not mind having a Disclavier in my studio.