Please join the DEN team (and lots of other great Yamaha folks!) at the 2018 Conference of the Music Teachers' National Association (MTNA)! For many teachers, this is a rare opportunity to get hands-on time exploring Disklavier, as well as a representative sampling of many other Yamaha products, including the two highly acclaimed concert grands, the Yamaha CFX and the brand new Bösendorfer 280VC. Best of all, Yamaha's team of experts will be on hand to answer your questions and show you the latest tips and tricks from our vast community of musicians and educators. We are especially excited to present three insightful and engaging colleagues for our Yamaha showcase: Dennis Alexander, Chris Renaud-Cogswell, and Prof. Mario Ajero will be sharing their own unique strategies for using Clavinova, Disklavier, Hybrid Pianos and more! Please join us Monday, March 19th, at 1PM in the Monterrey Room for this very special presentation. We'll see you in Florida!

In 1916, the year before his untimely death, Scott Joplin recorded 7 piano rolls. These rolls were recorded during a period in which the concept of “hand-played rolls” was still being developed.

Regrettably, several factors undermined Joplin’s recordings. For starters, the recording technology was limited to capturing the start and stop times of notes as well as the up/down positions of the sustain pedal. No dynamics were captured. In the case of the Connorized rolls that he recorded, the temporal resolution of the holes in the paper was rather course, and apparently the roll editors further quantized Joplin's playing.

The DEN is happy to welcome Tiffin University to the family! Two Disklavier ENSPIRE pianos were only a part of a recent music department initiative to equip their new "Performing Arts Lab (PAL)" to implement a vision of a truly 21st-Century music progam. The 32 new Yamaha instruments in the acquisition also included three TransAcoustic pianos, one Silent Piano, six AvantGrand pianos, one NU1 hybrid piano, and a full Clavinova music lab featuring 12 CLP and CVP digital pianos. Each room in the PAL is "wired for sound," offering students and faculty the capability to record and work together with the other nstruments placed throughout the facility.

Dr. Pamela Pike, Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Louisiana State University, has been using the Disklavier as a distance-learning and pedagogical tool for as long as just about anyone. Last year (2016), she had the idea to incorporate these technologies into her graduate students' service learning requirements, and she monitored the activities with a properly empirical study of the efficacy of the idea. Her findings were recently published in the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Journal, and we spoke to Dr. Pike about the process.

Yamaha Artist Dan Tepfer shares his approach to interactive performance with the Disklavier at its center.