Horncastle Pianolas

It works!

Today finds us at the Rural Lincolnshire Enterprise Hub where Ross of Hardware Meetup fame is showing of his digital piano. This is no ordinary instrument, although it did start as an ordinary piano. Then Ross fitted a whole bunch of solenoids and electronics to control them. He now has a piano that accepts MIDI music and plays it.

How it works

But Ross didn’t stop there. He’s also built an Alexa interface so that you can request music by name and have it played for you. And there is also an AI element which can tell you more about your musical choices and we even heard some attempts, not always successfully, to use AI to make new music. Great fun and a very impressive project. You can see it working here.