Video: Concert Hands teaches you to play piano, whether you want it to or not
By Ross Miller 
posted Aug 20th 2009 8:28PM
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I could just imagine this thing malfunctioning and throwing both your hands out to the sides.
Guess what others jobs can Hands do ?
Yeah "Concert Hands teaches you to do Hand ... Job"
What happens if I want to play this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gaMX_NTLRw
This is clearly aimed at Re-Tar-Ded children and No talent child...
Parents save your money and just give up.
I can play the Piano and Trombone by ear... You either KNOW how to do something or you will never be good at it.
Like driving a car... You either know how to park or should just walk!
Now the solution to the problem is to stop people from procreating if you are fat and untalented.
There should be a limit to how many dolts a woman can spew out...
Ladies just because you CAN does not mean you should!
There should be a TAX break for people sho do not have kids...
Too many people on this planet!
And, JUST a Chopin piece?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VjFKLCKwM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGaVou6lfk
I have a feeling that meat_juice has zero talents.
Oh, and for the record ... I'm all for meat_juice never having children. Not that he will have the chance or anything.
"You either KNOW how to do something or you will never be good at it."
So, I guess I'm wasting my time as an educator then, since I'm actually TEACHING kids stuff they didn't already know.
Ah, being a good educator... yet one more thing you either "know how to do, or don't". :D
@ Meat Juice.
You have some good ideas there about killing all of the unworthy. Hitler tried that, you wanna be like Hitler, boy???
I know it would seem like a solution, but it doesn't work that way.. unless you keep killing all the bad guys for 40 thousand years. And then yourself, cause if you kill you are bad. Does this appeal to you?
> About the piano thing: This is awesome!!! :) I mean tie me down to that piano, cause i can't force myself. Just put my hands in there and leave me there with a beer hat and a straw for 3 days and Mozart will be like "duude.."
resistance is futile!!!
"sponsored by SkyNet"
o_o
Finally, RSI without all the straining.
If only that man in the picture had a photoshopped pedobear head....
Remember Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes"?
As a piano player, I get mad when someone plays without knowing how to read music.
This?... I can't imagine the destruction I'd cause...
Why would you be mad??? I've been playing since I was 11 years old. I'm 35 now and play very well. Can't read a single note, but let me hear a song and 5 minutes later I play it. Nothing wrong with that friend.
I can SORTA read music — I'm attempting to learn, anyway. Currently, however, the keyboard I play is in a storage building seventy-seven miles away. Usually, I just play by ear anyway. :/ Is there anything wrong with that?
Aaand back on topic: BAH! Learning through memorizing which key to strike and how long to hold it down is okay, but it's honestly not the best way to learn. I should know — I know several songs, all of which come from video games, and I only know them because I hooked my keyboard up to my PC and used the light-up keys on it to learn. XP
It's certainly not the WORST way, but seriously — this apparatus is merely the next-generation 'light-up key' system: instead of just lighting up the key you need to press, however, it forcefully drags your fingers — hand(s) and all — to the correct spot on the keyboard/piano you're playing.
Depending on the price, however, it might not be too bad of an alternative to piano lessons — it looks like you can use the software to import sheet music or MIDIs or something and play those, so hey — at least the kid (or whoever is using the device) would be able to learn whatever song he/she wanted.
P.S.: if anyone here plans on getting/actually gets this, I want them to record a video of them playing the NES Silver Surfer in-game tune. AND upload it to YouTube. :)
P.P.S.: am I the only one who finds the voiceover-woman's voice extremely annoying in that vid?
I am also a piano player, and I can tell you that I started playing by ear and without music. Many Jazz musicians do not know how to read music, and you would be surprised how well one can play without reading.
Also, I would find this very annoying because the hands have to stay at one height because mine go all around like Lang Lang.
For the most part I think you are right, kids should learn by reading music or acquiring an absolute pitch. I couldn't understand how getting these gloves is beneficial when its probably only good for one song and then your lost when someone tells you to play another. I don't see how learning to play the keys will help you in knowing what keys to play, its like learning how to type but you don't know the words to type.
Kid: "No, daddy....The robot gloves hurt my hands! I don't want to play the piano!!!!"
Father: "You're gonna learn to play the theme from Halloween 2 if it's the last thing you do."
Is that a slightly zombified version of Alan Tudyk?
Laughable!
Can you imagine what Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto would do!?? Hehehe.
Why does she speak like that?
She has a Choir Mouth system embedded in her throat.
one of the early stages of robots taking over...
Is the woman doing the voice-over connected to some kind of robotic speaking trainer?
First thing I thought too... It's this century's bitchin' Betty from hell.
That machine has already taken that little girls left arm! *shock*.
seem like somthing pushy parents would make there kids do, so they could live there dreams through them.
The only appropriate music to play? Anything by "Rage Against the Machine".
Reminds me of Coraline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCDqtOlKtM
"MY father can't play the piano."
"No need! This piano...plays ME!"
Finnaly! a way to sleep in keyboarding (music) class!
Oh, if only Schumann had access to this in his lifetime....
I doubt this would support songs that require your hands to cross, which omits quite a lot of pieces. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on this thing, why not invest in lessons with a real person?
Does this remind anyone of that creepy contraption that secretary had on her hands in Terry Gilliam's Brazil? I dunno if it's just me, but I value having full control of my body when I have a say in the matter.
I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords.
Yep, definitely me. All that's missing from the ad are a bunch of airducts and extension cords on the floor.
I simply ADORE his shirt!
I don't known how can you sync your comments with your avatar.
There's something very creepy about the photo.
Seen it:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51882521
lets just hope it doesn't go off the track and form android killing people ;o
You play piano to get out off the ghetto. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4bJorkshHw
Holy Hell, it's Starbuck!
Or is it?