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Re:Steinway’s New Piano Can Play a Perfect Concerto by Itself on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:03PM (#10166897)
This is not new. Steinway has these systems for years; only news is the piano can talk to an ipad now ...

The first systems that could reproduce dynamics are from 1904: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...

There are actually lots of old piano roll recordings from great artists like Rachmaninoff, Gershwin any many others around. Some people actually scanned them and converted them to MIDI: http://www.pianola.co.nz/public/

These files can now be played on a Yamaha Disklavier, or the Steinway CEUS or now this new one.

Or they can be played with software-modeled pianos like PianoTeq or sampled-based software pianos. Really nice.