Getting into a top music school like UCLA (where John Williams studied) or Boston College (where conductor Robert J. Ambrose studied) requires more than a demo tape. Tiny nuances distinguish the very ...

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 ...

Yamaha created the Disklavier more than 25 years ago, the modern-day version of the ‘player piano’. Disklavier pianos are true acoustic pianos that incorporate fibre-optic sensing systems, high ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Eight seconds later the ghost vanished. Keys fell flat in mid-chord and the piano sat lifeless as its mortal ...

Imagine, however improbable this sounds, an electrified piano that didn’t use speakers to send music vibrating through the air — a device that required electricity to trigger its sampled sounds, but ...

We all knew in our hearts that if we just waited long enough, the Internet of Things would come around to self-playing pianos; that surely the cloud would incorporate that last vestige of ol’ timey ...

Digital player-piano technology could change the musical world. Yamaha sponsors e-competitions, piano competitions in which Disklavier performances are beamed from around the country to a central ...

Steve Riesen’s piano warehouse in College Park is full of hard-luck stories: The shiny Yamaha player piano was once owned by a Jacksonville woman who lost everything when the real-estate market ...