After market player pianos...

[perfect_pitch]

Greetings...

I own a Yamaha C2 Grand piano, and wanted to know if any after market devices can be used to begin recording piano performances, and whether they also offer playback on the piano - things like the Yamaha Disklavier and the PNOmation stuff... Has anyone got any advice on good systems, cost etc???

[pristinepiano]

Pianomation systems are sort of the gold standard the others are measured too.  You can add PNO Scan/midi record strip to it also.  I haven't installed one yet, but I got to check a (new) working system out and it is indeed very good with no noticable plunger/solenoid noise.   There used to be a player unit out also that rolls up like a cabinet over the keys, but if I'm not mistaken, they might have gone out of business a few years back.  This one was a play only model.

[perfect_pitch]

...but if I'm not mistaken, they might have gone out of business a few years back.  This one was a play only model.

That might make sense as I tried contacting them a while back and got no response whatsoever.