The Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV wireless player piano

Yamaha's new Disklavier Mark IV player piano looks pretty much just like any other baby grand piano, except with one difference: you can hook it up to your home wireless network. Alongside all of the strings and felt hammers, they've added a bunch of circuitry and a WiFi connection to the Disklavier Mark IV so you can wirelessly control the piano and what it plays from a WiFi-enabled Pocket PC or Tablet PC. There's even a hard drive for storing all the songs you want it to play, and they also include their SmartKey technology to help you learn how to play the piano, with the Disklavier Mark IV moving the key you're supposed to press and then waiting for your to strike it.

[Joey @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

Cool tech piano. Never thought a piano could be geek chic but this one might just have made it.

[Ryan McLean @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

Is it just me, or did the hijack a Sharp Zaurus as the handheld controller?

[Gadget Freak @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

Great! Wireless control of a musical instrument... This should go hand-in-hand with the lipsync'ing routine for Britney and a few others... No, wait, they don't have grand piano sound in their music, baby or otherwise.

[Dan Selzer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM]

just one word of warning for those of you who purchase your very own Disklavier. Yes, of course they accept MIDI and you can control it with any computer sequencing software, but if you decide to do as one of my co-electronic music major friends decided to do and see what happens when you tell it to hit a key faster and faster and faster, well, it's gonna start smoking and cost a ton of money to fix. Conlon Nancarrow, eat your heart out.