Steinway, the gold standard for pianos, is now offering its year-old Spirio player piano in Chicago—for anyone in the market for a self-playing piano with virtuoso-level quality, minus the virtuoso.
The Japanese piano company Yamaha has been selling its disklavier player piano for decades. But, in keeping with the times, the latest model of the disklavier has an Internet connection. The New York ...
Students audition for music schools on the other side of the world with cloud-connected pianos that record and re-create how they played. Getting into a top music school like UCLA (where John Williams ...
Way before Spotify, stereos, or even radio, Americans who wanted to listen to music at home had one choice: They could play it themselves. This changed by the 1890s, when a hot new technology arrived: ...
One Minnesota repairman brings musical history back to life. About a decade ago, Nate Otto opened Rum River Restoration in his Anoka garage to bring new life to the player piano. “It’s a piano that ...
URBANA — You may have seen a player piano, but it's unlikely you ever saw one like this. The 1927 piano is a treasure of the University of Illinois Music and Performing Arts Library and has a room of ...
Love the look of a piano and the sound of concertos but not quite able to master the notes? Fear not: Venerable pianomaker Steinway & Sons announced this week the debut of a new self-playing piano ...