The old-school mechanics of a player piano use a bellows and valve system to suck air through dozens of holes, making the action hit a string whenever a hole is present in the piano roll.

Old CDs can be used to construct animal sculptures, as demonstrated by Australian artist Sean Avery. You could glue together a collection of parts to manufacture a Christmas-themed decoration or ...

You’re somehow compelled to use them all in different projects ... The rest of the housing is PVC, with some other miscellaneous parts found at the hardware store. To calibrate the device ...

people find novel ways to repurpose parts for unintended uses, often with surprising results. Considering just how talented ...

While some old hard drives can't hold files anymore, they still have moving parts you can use, like turning them into a desktop rotary sanding tool. You can do this by opening up a hard drive with ...

Whether it is referring to interior parts, powertrains, or transmissions, if they're of good quality and work well…why not use them? For example, this didn't make the list, but the Z4 from the ...

On Thursday, there was a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a former piano factory in Meriden that is being turned into ...

Now, Lamb believes that he has found a way to make piano lessons a lot more accessible: ROLI’s new Airwave product uses special infrared cameras for hand tracking, which makes it possible to ...

Recently, an unknown vandal ripped one of the piano’s keys off. The instrument, located in a community space near City Hall and a library, was used for ... repair damaged parts of the piano.

The Airwave is a bid to lower the barrier of entry for the piano, by leveraging hand tracking ... The hand-tracking can be used for music creation, as well — kind of like an AI-powered theremin.

The greatest surprise in t Symphony Orchestra’s ongoing exile from Powell Hall has been the Live at The Sheldon chamber music ...

The hand-tracking can be used for music creation, as well — kind of like an AI-powered theremin. “With the simple raise of their hands, creators can transform a piano into a full orchestra ...