Can a Piano Still Be Classy When It’s Got Squishy Tube Keys?

The forte-piano is a pretty honest-to-god instrument . And sure we have electric variations , which add the option mess with the speech sound , but the key interface has remained pretty stock . Roli is seek to judder that up with the Seaboard Grand , a new , futuristic - style instrument that putspitch tweaking at your fingertip .

Sporting a pressure - sensitive touch interface , the Seaboard Grand purpose to play a sort of diplomacy to the keyboard that was never possible with those stock black and white keys . Players could expend simple gestures to bend bank note , adjust the mass , and modify the strait , all while getting feedback from the Seaboard ’s haptic surface .

And although the interface is quite different — uniform white , rounded keys — Roli say the playing experience is standardised enough to a traditional keyboard that learning it will mostly be a subject of learning how to utilise the unexampled , fun stuff . Roli will be releasing a limited streamlet of 88 keyboards this April for an as - yet - to - be - announced and doubtlessly in high spirits Mary Leontyne Price . [ RoliviaThe scepter ]