Disklavier

Hello Ken,

Yeah I was thinking the same thing, there is that "Red Piano" that yamaha flog the Disklavier, it has recordings of Elton John, I doubt they will be for sale anytime soon because its all 'precious'... perhaps someone can copy the midis off it ;-)

I am generally annoyed at the lack of anything good on the Yamaha store, as nothing there is original and most recordings are boring and clinical with no 'feeling'. It would be good to have a proper tony Bennett or Diana Krall CD that had the real songs but the only piano playing was your own...and it was the 'actual artist'. I hate when you get cd's of 'original artists' and they just have your piano trying to play over the top of the original... pretty lame.

I wish yamaha would replace most of there pianos with disklaviers so they can get live recordings like at the Sydney Opera house, I saw Burt Baccarat live but nope, no proper recordings done :( he is one of the last legends and when he retires we will never have a REAL recording.

Philip






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From: Ken Gorman <KenGorman@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 11 December, 2008 1:13:10 AM
Subject: [disklavier] Fw: Live Concerts via Disklavier


While shopping for my Disklavier, I recall the salesman touting a feature where the Disklavier could play the exact notes a performer was playing while the performer was playing them.  The salesman encouraged us to imagine that we were sitting at home while our piano was playing the exact notes Elton John was playing while on stage somewhere.


I found some videos on YouTube suggesting that this is indeed  possible - the videos I found highlighted the "remote lesson" capabilities of the Disklavier, i.e.

    http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=M9X_P9Ft4qo

Has Elton John (or any other famous performer for that matter) held a live concert where their playing was reproduced on a piano at the time they were playing it?  If so, does anyone have any videos  or web-links with additional information?

Thanks,

Ken




    


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