'Must-have piano'

[kernelbogey]

I came across this while browsing the Guardian website today.

I wonder what musicians here think.

[MrGongGong]

Well it's hardly a new kind of controller is it ?
Apart from the fairly obvious convenience I often fail to understand why one would want to make a computer sound like a piano when there are lots of pianos in the world and one can do much more interesting things with a computer. (though I guess physiotherapy is expensive )

[mercia]

a demonstration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21699459

nobody is saying how much it will cost

[MrGongGong]

The Eigenharp is a much more interesting implementation of this kind of technology IMV
this just seems like a sexy keyboard controller to me
I was trying to remember the other similar one that's been around for a while that allows movement on the key to change timbre and pitch etc .......

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rather than one of these fake pianos, I drool over having a Moore piano, or even a Janko piano. Very few of either were ever made.

[MrGongGong]

You might like this one Alpen

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/01/zillion-keyed-keyboards-new-musical-layouts-and-microtonal-gadgets/

[vinteuil]

I drool over having a Moore piano

,,, a Moór piano wd certainly be fun to have -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oAuEN91cpU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emánuel_Moór

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Many thanks for the links. I never thought I'd "see" a Moor piano in action.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Now I've started to dream about winning the lottery jackpot and being able to commission Steinway to making another Moor piano.

[mercia]

completely off-topic but I hadn't realised, until the Rafael Puyana thread appeared, that triple-keyboard harpsichords even existed