Yamaha’s self-playing Disklavier pianos have been thrilling music lovers for decades. Offering realistic playback of virtually any piece imaginable, the Disklaviers are less like player pianos and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...