A little over a decade ago, Yamaha came out with technology for their keyboards called SmartKey. It was integrated into the Disklavier Gran Touch to help piano students learn to play by following along with moving keys and pedals. This idea has been brought into 2011 with another feature that now makes it possible for the iPhone 4S to play piano songs on the new Disklavier piano.
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The phone is able to control the piano using MIDI commands and previously loaded MIDI-converted song files. When Siri is prompted, the song is streamed through an Apple AirPort Express, which is connected to the piano through the analog input. The piano plays the song, pedal movements and all, until the song is over or it is prompted to stop. The Yamaha-developed hack even allows some of Apple’s embedded quirks to slip through as seen in the video with the Casablanca line.
Via: Wired Gadget Lab
Credit: Yamaha/Craig Knudsen
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