2023-12-28 18:06:48
In one of the largest concert halls in the Capital of Japan, “Suntory Hall Blue Rose”, an atypical concert was held on December 21. Three piano players with disabilities were able to perform great works of the repertoire with greater ease thanks to the new Yamaha piano, enriched with a program developed by artificial intelligence.
Yamaha and digital, a long history
The well-known brand of piano (and motorcycle!) Yamaha has long stood out for its innovations in the digital field. Already in 1987, the great keyboard house offered its first Disklavier : an acoustic piano with a unique feature at the time, the possibility of reproducing the playing of a pianist thanks to electronic sensors.
Since then, these hybrid pianos have developed and continue to reinvent themselves. In 2015, the disklavier is combined with an application (musiccast) which allows extremely precise sound delivery via speakers. And Yamaha continues its fruitful experiments with the “ Anyone Piano ” which we could hear for the first time during a concert in Tokyo on December 21.
This new program allows the piano to compensate for the player’s muscular deficiencies, while maintaining one press of the keys when they are not pressed in sufficiently. Inspired by the automatic piano disklavier, a memory system also allows the piano to fill in missing notes.
It was a piano student who can only play with one finger, Kiwa Usami, who inspired the Japanese brand to develop this new version of the instrument.
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