Anyone know anything about Pianomation???

[perfect_pitch]

Greetings...

I recently hear about this technology...

https://www.qrsmusic.com/pianomation.asp

And wanted to know if it's something a lot of people know about. I'm curious to know if it's worth doing as I want to get back seriously into my Youtube videos again, but with the weather with what it is in Australia, my tuning can sometimes go out within hours of being tuned. Granted, not much - but enough to take what could be a professional recording to one that just sounds 'a little off'...

Specifically, I wanted to know if anyones done it before to an existing piano. Can it be fitted to a Grand piano, and if so - does anyone know how much roughly would one be expecting to pay for the fitting/installation?

Can it be fitted without hindering the ability to regulate and tune the piano? How does the actual mechanism hammer the strings/replicate pedal touch (AND pedal sensitivity) without the touch of a person?

How accurate are the midi files, and can the mechanism replicate virtuosic playing accurately (repeated notes, grace notes, etc...)

Can the midi files then be used with a sound sampling software to recreate a Yamaha Piano performance that is completely in tune? If so, what playback quality can be achieved 48Khtz, 96Khtz... 192Khtz???)

Anyone have any advice? I have already e-mailed the company, but wanted to hear if any piano players had ever had it done.

[perfect_pitch]

So after a week... does no-one know anything about this technology? I figured with the users we have - a few Piano technicians might be able to help...

 

[justharmony]

hi.  I admit up front that I know little... but I'll share what I think I do know if it might help.  My understanding (not having done the research myself, but being in the company of two males dead set on learning everything there was to know about this and other player systems) is that this system is very difficult to have installed well after-market.  Not impossible.  Just very difficult. 

The only system I've heard myself was extremely poor... but to be fair... that may have more to do with the age of the system and other factors.

The only other thing that I really know (or have been told) is that any player system bought and sold after market is going to be very expensive.   As in, several thousand US dollars expensive.
Don't know if this helps but there's at least a tidbit or two.

JH

[perfect_pitch]

Thanks for the info...

It's more than anyone else contributed to the conversation...