I hate, hate, hate computers and phones/tablets on stage. To me, a Macbook sitting next to a keyboardist or percussionist is just asking for trouble. Computers freeze, apps crash and sometimes you forget to turn off notifications and now everyone in...
LEGO sells all kinds of kits but they don’t currently make any which let you build a musical instrument. That could change if this LEGO Ideas grand piano model gets enough fan support.
Eduard Reynolds designed this nifty LEGO replica of a concert grand piano, and it looks fantastic. The model is impressively detailed, including tiny piano keys, a hinged lid to see inside the piano, as well as a stool and a microphone stand.
About the only thing it doesn’t do is actually play music – though that could be fixed with a little electronic circuitry, I’m sure. To put things in perspective, the last time LEGO made a piano set, it looked like this:
If you like Eduard’s LEGO grand piano as much as I do, drop by the LEGO Ideas site and cast your vote to help get it produced.
LEGO sells all kinds of kits but they don’t currently make any which let you build a musical instrument. That could change if this LEGO Ideas grand piano model gets enough fan support.
Eduard Reynolds designed this nifty LEGO replica of a concert grand piano, and it looks fantastic. The model is impressively detailed, including tiny piano keys, a hinged lid to see inside the piano, as well as a stool and a microphone stand.
About the only thing it doesn’t do is actually play music – though that could be fixed with a little electronic circuitry, I’m sure. To put things in perspective, the last time LEGO made a piano set, it looked like this:
If you like Eduard’s LEGO grand piano as much as I do, drop by the LEGO Ideas site and cast your vote to help get it produced.
Of the many things we expected to see at IFA 2017, cutting-edge instruments weren't one of them. But Yamaha is using its time in Berlin to showcase the Clavinova all-electric, smart pianos, which use an iOS device and LEDs above each key to teach you...
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You played a concert with that thing? You’re braver than I thought. Remember that Star Wars medley video from Player Piano that went viral? Turns out you can now own the Millennium Falcon piano featured in the video.
It is currently up for auction on eBay. It has a first bid price of $7,500(USD), and that doesn’t include shipping from L.A. which is sure to cost a small fortune too. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather win it in a card game.
Whoever gets this should put it in a room that looks like a Death Star hanger or the one where Han parked it in on Tatooine.
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a grand piano… now, take that image and completely forget about it! That’s the idea behind Oyster. This conceptual instrument ditches the monotonous form of the piano for the natural, curvaceous shape of the sea life by the same name. Because its shape is quite similar to that of the standard piano, there’s no sacrifice in tone, quality or performance. It’s a beautiful merging of something manmade with nature in perfect harmony!
Apple has showed off a number of uses for the newfangled MacBook Pro Touch Bar, including DJ and other music making controls. It also plays Doom, which is quite handy. When you need to do your best Elton John impression, there's an app that can help...
You might know Piano Tiles 2. It is a touch-based mobile game that’s very difficult; at least for humans. So DenverFinn built a robot that slips over an iPad and acts like human hands, super fast human hands. Make that robot hands.
It works by using an iPhone overhead that captures the game at 120 frames-per-second and sends visual input to a controller that knows to seek out the black keys and avoid the white spaces. When a black key aligns with one of its conductive-tipped “fingers,” the controller fires a tiny motor to make the appropriate finger tap the screen.
Pretty simple really, but it produces some great results. This finger bot hit a record speed of 21.079 keys per second. That is crazy fast. How fast? Watch near the end and see if you can even follow the game with your eyes. Now imagine your own fingers hitting the keys at that speed.
I’m just wondering what other games this finger bot could master. Someone package this up as a cheating aid for mobile games and I bet people would buy it.
You probably remember the 1998 movie Big, where Tom Hanks played on a giant electronic piano keyboard at the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in New York City. Everyone knows it. It’s a classic scene that people love. It was clearly a big hit with Russian artist and designer Roman Sviridov, who was inspired to create this keyboard that uses skateboard decks as keys.
Sviridov made the keyboard to promote a fashion brand called Element. It works just like it does in the movie. You hop on and go from key to key. Or should I say deck to deck?
Check out the video to see a bunch of people give it a go at the Faces & Laces street culture exhibition in Russia. It’s clear that people really enjoy it and it brings out the kid in them.
I hate, hate, hate computers and phones/tablets on stage. To me, a Macbook sitting next to a keyboardist or percussionist is just asking for trouble. Computers freeze, apps crash and sometimes you forget to turn off notifications and now everyone in...
Of the many things we expected to see at IFA 2017, cutting-edge instruments weren't one of them. But Yamaha is using its time in Berlin to showcase the Clavinova all-electric, smart pianos, which use an iOS device and LEDs above each key to teach you...
In Conversation:
Trent Reznor
David Marchese,
Vulture
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor helped craft Beats Music, the streaming service that would eventually become Apple Music after the tech giant purchased the popular headphone brand. On the...
Apple has showed off a number of uses for the newfangled MacBook Pro Touch Bar, including DJ and other music making controls. It also plays Doom, which is quite handy. When you need to do your best Elton John impression, there's an app that can help...
