Piano Maestro's flashing lights guide your fingers and teach you to play
Piano Maestro will turn any piano (or keyboard) into a teaching device. It is also incredibly simple and — compared to the price of your piano — cheap.
The device is little more than a long bar with LEDs on the front and a USB socket. You place it atop your piano's keyboard and hook it up to your computer. Then you fire up the companion software, load in some music (MIDI) and you're off. The sheet music is displayed on-screen, along with a small representation of a keyboard. As the notes are played by the software, the LEDs light up next to the keys to show you which ones to hit.
The Piano Maestro has 48 LEDs, which are designed to line up with keys on a standard-sized keyboard (with an octave span of 164mm). Should you want to use all of the keys on your piano, you can move the bar up or down and just tell the software where you have put it.
The Piano Maestro costs $170, and the software will work with Windows only. That's fair enough, as everybody knows that musicians never use Macs (</sarcasm>). The gadget is available now, so go dust off that piano.
Piano Maestro product page [Piano Maestro via Red Ferret]
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