Friday, 24 January 2014

Yamaha's vibrating piano bridges the digital-analog divide

Yamaha's vibrating piano bridges the digital-analog divide
Jan 24th 2014, 20:27, by Trent Wolbe

You know those cheap little things you can buy in the checkout line at CVS that say "turns anything into a speaker!" where you plug your iPod into one end and stick a big suction cup on your window or kitchen table or car or whatever and the whole thing vibrates and it usually sounds like shit? Well, Yamaha went and did that for a whole piano, but it’s not cheap and you can’t buy it at CVS and it sounds kind of amazing.
The Japanese manufacturing giant unveiled the U1TA upright piano yesterday at the NAMM show in Anaheim, which will be available in April. From the outside, it looks exactly like any other traditional piano with a MIDI brain strapped on it.

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