There is even a digital piano in the music room (only used with headphones).
The ghostly digital piano, driven by a computer, was surrounded by the 17-member ensemble, playing acoustic instruments.
It would be played on a digital piano, which would be hooked up to a video screen.
This participant, a musician, played a snippet of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" on a digital piano interface.
It's light-years better than what you'd hear on a typical synthesizer or digital piano; from the next room, you'd swear you were listening to a real piano.
Re "Mastering 88 Keys, Con (Digital) Brio" (Jan . 2: As a classically trained pianist and teacher, I warily accepted a digital piano to join the acoustic piano in my studio 10 years ago.
The feedback was generated with the MIDI-OX software and each key on the digital piano keyboard was associated with one piano-like tone (arranged in the standard chromatic scale).
Under the active condition, subjects played a 7-note melody with either their right or left hand on an MR-compatible digital piano keyboard while online auditory feedback was provided through earphones.
"Instead of spending hundreds or thousands to repair an old piano, you can buy a new one made in China that's just as good, or you can buy a digital one that doesn't need tuning and has all kinds of bells and whistles," said Larry Fine, the editor and publisher of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, the industry bible.
The concert-grand soundalike Roland FP-7 digital piano has a remarkably authentic-feeling progressive hammer action and a damper pedal that supports half-pedalling, and it can simulate a very fine Steinway when the lid is up, down, or anywhere in between (Sam Ash, 160 W. 48th Street; $1,595).
