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Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

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Re: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

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Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.

Same.

I'm about to just buy that P515... I can't stand the indecision any longer.

Re: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

#15

uhh, have y'all ever heard a drone hovering? not exactly the kind of thing you want anywhere near a musical instrument LOL

> As of now, the drones’ propellers are still somewhat noisy. But as quiet drone technology becomes available, they’ll be able to add it to the existing framework.

Re: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

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>>> As of now, the drones’ propellers are still somewhat noisy. But as quiet drone technology becomes available, they’ll be able to add it to the existing framework. So really everything you would expect from hanging a speaker from a drone, noisy and power hungry.

DJI has made a shocking amount of progress at making its drones quieter over the past few years. What used to sound like a loud swarm of bees 20 feet overhead is now almost imperceptible.

The volume of air moved remains a limitation of physics.

One thing the news release didn’t cover was whether there were attempts to integrate sound production into the coils of the motors.

Re: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

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post #9

>>> As of now, the drones’ propellers are still somewhat noisy. But as quiet drone technology becomes available, they’ll be able to add it to the existing framework. So really everything you would expect from hanging a speaker from a drone, noisy and power hungry.

DJI has made a shocking amount of progress at making its drones quieter over the past few years. What used to sound like a loud swarm of bees 20 feet overhead is now almost imperceptible.

Maybe a prop-stabilized blimp. You can hear flies and moths, no way a presumably 100+g speaker and a battery could be silent.

Re: Roland’s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano

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Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.

A good percentage of the producer digital pianos are just the flat keyboard and controls housed in a structure meant to look like a traditional piano.

The new Casio, for example, looks relatively modern and fits like furniture, but you could remove the body and put it into any crazy design you like.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PXS7000BK--casio-px-...

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