Hackaday

Piano Repurposed As A Resonant Synth Speaker

[Richard] recently rediscovered some files from a hack he did back in 2004. He was experimenting with exciting piano strings via electromagnetic fields. The idea shares some elements with the self ...

The Ultimate Electronica Without a Single Synthesizer—Grandbrothers' "Bloodflow": Orchestration Techniques Using Electromagnetic Hammers and Acoustic Piano

In the realms of contemporary post-classical, ambient, and minimal techno, the "fusion of acoustic piano and electronics" has ...
Hackaday

Toy Piano Gets Synth Overhaul

The Peanuts cartoon character Schroeder liked to bang out Beethoven a toy piano. Now, thanks to this hack from [Liam Lacey], Schroeder can switch to Skrillex. That’s because [Liam] built a polyphonic ...
Engadget

Critter & Guitari’s 201 Music Synthesizer is the long-awaited successor to its Pocket Piano

Critter & Guitari's lineup of hackable music computers and video synths are undeniably unique. They do things that practically no other instrument can, plus they're probably the most visually ...

Why did the master of 'Amélie' dismantle the piano with a modular synth? — The symbiosis of live keys and electronic sound in Yann Tiersen's 'Ker al Loch'

Yann Tiersen is a French composer who swept the world into a vortex of nostalgia with the delicate and melancholic melodies ...
Sonic State

Hybrid Polyphonic Synth/Electric Piano

We brought you preliminary news of this back in September, now we can tell you that the Extend-o-Matic has gone live on Kickstarter. The Extend-o-Matic is a hybrid of a polyphonic synth and digital ...
Ars Technica

Piano synthesizer with 61 keys vs. 88 - do I "need" 88 keys?

So I picked up a nice keyboard from Costco under $100 that is the Casio LK-110 - (Amazon has it here: http://www.amazon.com/Casio-LK...ghting/dp/B001E994OY) Anyway it ...