Broadway MK11 Baby Grand Digital Piano (also with self-play – plays by itself) – The UK’s most popular piano for Restaurants, Hotels, Shopping Centres, Bars, Pubs, Cafes, Nursing, Care and Retirement Homes, Golf and Spa Resorts, and Home Use
The only baby grand digital piano that can be played both as a normal piano and set to play by itself (player piano) – keys move up and down on their own. You can connect it to a pc or iPad. It can even be programmed from a distance with the remote control. It has 1000’s of built-in songs: classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock, gospel, ragtime and much more… You can even download more music from the internet.
Where to see the MK11:
Hotels
~Marriott, Powerscourt Hotel, Ireland (www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dubak-powerscourt-hotel-autograph-collection)
~Appleby Castle, Cumbria, The Lake District
~Tracy Park Golf & Country Luxury Hotel, Bath Road, Wick, Bristol, BS30 5RN (www.tracypark.co.uk)
~Lythe Hill Hotel, Restaurant and Spa, Petworth Rd, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3BQ (www.lythehill.co.uk)
~Langdon Court Hotel, Adam’s Lane, Down Thomas, Plymouth PL9 0DY (www.langdoncourt.com)
Shopping Centres
~Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, MK9 3ES
~Waverley Mall Shopping Centre, Edinburgh, EH1 1BQ
Restaurants
~Norris’s, 4 Norris Street, Piccadilly, Central London
~Meejana Restaurant, 241 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 9HP (www.meejana.co.uk)
~Cocos Italian Restaurant, WA14 1RP
~The Dome, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2NZ
~Charlie Franks, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1QX (www.charliefranks.co.uk)
Bars/Pubs/Cafes
~Cocos bar, Altrincham, WA14 1RP
~The Phoenix Pub, SO51 8BD
Nursing/Care Homes
~Casa Di Lusso dementia nursing home, TA6 4GU
Holiday Parks
~Lady’s Mile Holiday Park, EX7 0LX (www.ladysmile.co.uk)
Other
~Castlemartyr Spa and Golf Resort, Co. Cork, Ireland, P25 X300 (www.castlemartyrresort.ie)
~Mackay’s of Cambridge, 85 East Rd, Cambridge, CB1 1BY (www.mackay.co.uk)
~Preton Ltd., 28 Brunswick Square, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1EJ (www.preton.com)
~Foden Estates Ltd., PO Box 863, Milner Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 6XR (www.fodenestates.co.uk)
~Mills Bakery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, Devon
Come and try out a Broadway MK11 in our London and Northamptonshire showrooms…
Broadway MK11 Baby Grand Digital Piano
…Turn the piano on, sit back and hear it play songs all by itself.
The keys also move up and down as if an invisible pianist is playing.
The MK11 is self playing (you can also play it as a normal piano) – A brilliant idea
for restaurants that want background music playing… guaranteed to turn heads!
Saves having to pay a pianist!
The MK11 has over 1,000 built-in popular songs (classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock,
gospel, ragtime and much more…) and you can set it so it plays songs continuously.
No need to re-start it. Or you could even download a limited amount of music from
the internet onto the SD card, so the piano can play your favourite songs if they
aren’t already in the library.
It also comes with a remote control. So you can ask your guests for a song request,
then secretly press the select/play button and, as if by magic, the piano starts playing
their song choice!
“The Broadway MK11 baby grand is really enjoyable to play. It has a crisp, realistic tone, a nicely weighted wooden key touch and looks really posh. But at first glance it appeared a little pricey… that was until I realised it plays songs by itself and the keys move up and down (the correct keys), and you can select any of the pre-programmed songs for it to play (there’s thousands of them!), or even download your own from the internet. It can also be controlled remotely – wow! – My only complaint is it plays better than I do”, Graham Howard – Piano Advisor: grahamhoward@ukpianos.co.uk
Features
The Sound
The Abundant Sound of the ROS V.5 Plus (Real Orchestra Sound Version 5+).
The ROS V.5 Plus sound source combines an innovative and unique sampling technology with the sound of finest European grand pianos to produce its refreshingly new sound. With the innovative and unique sampling technology in one pocket, and the sound of the finest European grand pianos in the other, the ROS V.5 Plus sound source now enjoys a new birth in its refreshingly new sounds.
It has a uniquely expressive tone colour, its sound deeply resonating with its player providing the most satisfactory playing experience. Equipped with the sounds of top tier European grand pianos, the ROS V.5 Plus employs the large-capacity MLFSS (Multi Layered Full Scale Sound) to offer its two distinguished grand piano voices. One button click is all that takes to pick your choice that suits your music. These quality grand piano voices could serve many kinds of musical interests.
Supporting high-capacity memory and diverse expression
The abundant sound of a digital piano requires a memory space that is large enough to contain the high-resolution samples.
The ROS V5 Plus supports a total of 8Gb of memory in order to store all its large-sized MLFSS (Multi Layered Full Scale Sound) and MLS (Multi Layered Sound) sources.
The MLFSS (Multi Layered Full Scale Sound), with its extremely large data size, assigns separate sample data to each portion of dynamic range which is divided into many levels, allowing natural expression of forte and piano. To play it is like to have many different types of high-end grand pianos in one hand, due to its inclusion of diverse grand piano sounds with differing characters. With this wide selection of grand piano voices, all genres and styles ranging from 18th century Baroque to contemporary music are fully covered, its expression more accurately in the character of the style.
The deeply resounding resonance of the grand piano
When a grand piano is played it produces a variety of different sounds that are not directly resulting from the keystroke – the product of various resonance phenomenon. It captures each of them into its digital pianos in order to provide more authentic piano-playing experience.
This feature, called the Acoustic Simulator, allows to closely emulate the characteristics of acoustic piano sounds. String resonance, damper resonance, damper samples and key-off sounds are all included in the samples as to bring the sensational experience of hearing the sound of a concert grand in a resonance-optimized concert hall. The string resonance emulates the vibrations of sympathetic strings that occur when playing a grand piano. While a note is being held down, playing an additional note whose frequency is a multiple of the first one causes all strings sympathetic with that overtone series to vibrate. This resonance effect is applied to the sounds so that the authentic grand piano sound is replicated allowing for fully resonant harmony.
The damper resonance refers to the particular resonance effect that takes place when using the damper pedal. When the pedal is pressed all dampers inside the piano are lifted from the strings, and it is the sound resulting from the interaction between notes and dampers that is sampled. Differing effects are provided depending on the depth the pedal is pressed. Also, the damper samples capture the natural vibrations of all free strings except the ones played, with the dampers raised above the strings.
The Key-off sound emulates the subtle sound that occurs as a key is released. It recreates the sound of dampers falling back onto their respective strings as the pianist releases his or her hand off the keys, allowing for more realistic playing.
These in-depth resonance and other subtle components of piano sound, along with the brand new enhanced keyboard is designed to provide natural playing experience, embellished with all-natural touch, response and sound.
256 Maximum Polyphony
Larger number of maximum polyphony allows a digital piano to play more notes simultaneously without running out of handling capacity which causes loss of earlier notes. There is a maximum 256 notes of polyphony in the Broadway MK11, which is enough to fully support the performance by professional pianists.
Equalizer System for Customizing
The equalizer system divides the full frequency range of piano sounds into four levels consisting of high (~2.6KHz), middle-high (~1KHz), middle-low (~300Hz) and low (~115Hz), and allows to adjust the volume of each frequency range independently. 8 types of preset EQ is included, as well as the option to fully customize your own frequency-volume settings, and you are free to perform with the sound of your choice. Wood keyboard ARHA-3W conveys the feeling of real keys that every pianist desires.
The RHA-3W was born with the sole objective of creating a keyboard as close as possible to acoustic piano keys, and presents the best qualities of acoustic key touch on a digital piano. Enjoy the sensation, with the new MK11 digital baby grand player piano.
Wooden keys
Before making it to the keys, the wood used for RHA-3W goes through processes identical with those that are used to create acoustic piano keys, then is subjected to careful inspection. This
detailed process ensures that the keys would be of fine quality and close to the feel, weight and touch of acoustic piano keys.
Graded Key Hammer Action
In order to better represent the touch response of acoustic piano keys, the keys of RHA-3W grows in weight as it moves towards the bass and vice versa, allowing the pianist more natural control over the keys.
Triple Sensor System
The triple sensor system of RHA-3W, a creation of technical expertise, allow extremely fine key movements to speak out. Equipped with three sensors that keep track of the subtlest movements of the keys, RHA-3W reacts more sensitively to the movement of its keys and translates that motion into a realistic and breathing piano performance.
Virtual Pianist System
The Virtual Pianist is a feature that ‘performs’ its keyboard automatically in accordance with a demo piece that is being played. This used to be something that was only possible by adding on an expensive device to an already expensive acoustic piano, but the technology came up with a self-playing system independently, requiring no additional devices and easily accessed via simple controls.
There is a free music library consisting of about 1,300 pieces coming from different genres to be played through the player system for enjoyment, without needing an accomplished pianist.
USB TO HOST & DEVICE
1. Convenient MIDI Access
Connect to a computer or an external MIDI device via USB MIDI using the USB TO HOST terminal to gain access to all MIDI related projects and performances.
2. Recording and Playing
Recording is easily accessible by connecting to external devices (computers, tablets or smartphones) via USB audio, and playing recorded material is just as simple. The piano is also capable of playing music files stored in an MP3 player. The USB features support Windows/Mac/iOS/Android systems. Actual compatibility may vary depending on the specific version and the types of the app.
Half-Pedal
Pianists control the amount of sustain they get when using the damper pedal by adjusting how deep they press it. In order to further enhance playing experience, it incorporates the half pedal feature which is designed to respond to the depth of the pedal to provide the players with the ability to perform the delicate control that they exercise on acoustic pianos.
Volume Control of Resonance Effects
The acoustic grand is a source of many different resonance phenomenon. Having captured these subtle elements of piano sound into its digital lineups, there is also the option to control the strength of these various resonance effects so that anyone would be able to set up the configuration that suits oneself.
– Damper Resonance Volume Control
– String Resonance Volume Control
– Damper Resonance Sound Volume Control
– Key-off Sound Volume Control
– Mechanical Noise Sound Volume Control
Stretched Tuning
Acoustic grand pianos have some variations in the frequencies of overtones depending on the tension and stiffness of the strings, and a unique tuning method called stretched tuning is employed to compensate for it. This method tunes the low notes lower than their actual pitches and the high notes higher, addressing the balance between the overtones of notes and therefore reducing the dissonance that occurs as multiple notes are played simultaneously.
Registration Memory
Once fully set, the full configuration (voices, parameters etc.) of the piano may be stored to one of the registration memory slots to be recalled later for future access. A performer may recall his/her favorite configuration with surprising convenience.
Auto Power Off
In order to conserve energy and reduce power consumption, this piano is equipped with an auto power management system that turns the power off following 30 minutes of inactivity.
Smart Bay
The smart box is located on the top of the panel for ergonomic concerns, facilitating convenient connections with external devices and easier access to smart features.
Fully Dimensional Sound System
Equipped with high-end spec woofer and tweeter speakers, the MK11 produces a more realistic sound than ever before. Its 2-way, 6 speaker composition offers abundant and powerful sound.
LCD Display / Data Wheel
The LCD is easy to read, and even easier to control with the data wheel, providing an altogether intuitive interface for the users.
Other features
⦁ Many performing utilities including Layer, Split, Twin Piano
⦁ Playback of Beyer, Czerny and Burgmüller etudes for enhanced piano learning experience
⦁ High quality reverb simulator to create the atmosphere of fine concert halls
Specifications
88 full size, fully-weighted keys
Wooden keys
Graded hammer action
Self-playing system (keys move on their own – or it can be played as a normal piano)
256 note polyphony
2-way 6 speakers sound system: 50 watts + 50 watts
3 pedals: soft, sostenuto, sustain (damper)
Touch sensitive keys (4 dynamic levels)
Headphone connections x 2 (two players can play at the same time)
Sliding key cover (covers the keys when not in use)
String resonance
Damper resonance
Triple sensor system
Virtual pianist system
USB to host and device
USB connection is compatibile with PC/Mac/iOS/Android
USB memory stick (external memory)
AUX IN/OUT
MIDI interface
Audio interface
Accompaniment control start/stop, synch, intro/ending, fill 1/fill 2, variation/fade
Equalizer
Half-pedal
Volume control
Registration memory
Auto power off
LCD display
Data wheel
Layer
Split keyboard
Twin piano
Educational music (learning pieces play black feature)
Rhythms x 80
128 voices
1300 built-in songs
2 track recorder
Metronome
Transpose
MP3
Reverb
Touch
Brilliance
Master tune
Scale tune
Smart box
Mic effect
Microphone connection (mic in)
VP player (virtual pianist)
Made in Indonesia
Colours: Polished Ebony, Polished White
Speakers
Speaker wattage: total 100 watts
6 speaker sound system
Dimensions
Width (left to right) 151.5cm | 60 inches
Depth (front to back) 142cm | 56 inches
Height (with lid & music rest down) 101cm | 40 inches
Height with lid fully up 175cm
Weight: 99kg
Included:
3 pedals
Music rest
AC power adaptor
Owner’s manual/User manual in English
Assembly instructions (piano will be assembled by us)
Safety
All Broadway pianos meet the required safety standards: CE, UL and FCC
How to download your own songs onto the MK11 (in addition to the 1,000 ones already built-in):
1) Find a site online that has MIDI files (mfiles.co.uk is a good site).
2) Download a MIDI file (piano piece only, no other instrument sounds or backing)
3) Put it onto the USB stick
4) Put the USB stick into the piano
5) Hold down the ‘Music Player’ button until it changes from MP3 to SMF Player
6) When you see on the piano’s screen the file you downloaded, click on it
It should then play and the keys will move.
Alternatively you can connect a cable from the USB port directly to your computer.
Recent Broadway MK11 Customers:
Broadway MK11 in Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
Milton Keynes Shopping Centre
24 Silbury Blvd
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK9 3ES
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Marriott, Powerscourt Hotel, Ireland
Powerscourt Estate
Enniskerry
Co. Wicklow
Ireland
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Waverley Mall Shopping Centre, Scotland
3 Waverley Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1BQ
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Norris’s Restaurant and Bar
4 Norris Street
Piccadilly
Central London
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Meejana Lebanese Restaurant
241 Old Brompton Road
Kensington, London, SW5 9HP
www.meejana.co.uk
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The Dome Restaurant
Hoe Rd, Plymouth, PL1 2NZ
01752 266600
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Langdon Court Hotel
Adam’s Lane, Down Thomas
Plymouth PL9 0DY
www.langdoncourt.com
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Appleby Castle
Cumbria
The Lake District
www.applebycastle.co.uk
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Charlie Franks
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 1QX
www.charliefranks.co.uk
01752 603959
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Cocos Bar and Italian Restaurant
Jane Louise Eaton
Kane Leisure Limited
18 Regent Rd
Altrincham
WA14 1RP
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Lady’s Mile Holiday Park
Exeter Rd
Dawlish EX7 0LX
www.ladysmile.co.uk
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Notaro Homes (Nursing Home)
Bower Lane
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 4GU
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Lythe Hill Hotel, Restaurant and Spa
Petworth Rd
Haslemere
Surrey
GU27 3BQ
www.lythehill.co.uk
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Castlemartyr Spa and Golf Resort
Co. Cork
Ireland
P25 X300
www.castlemartyrresort.ie
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Tracy Park Golf & Country Luxury Hotel
Bath Road
Wick
Near Bath
Bristol
BS30 5RN
www.tracypark.co.uk
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The Phoenix Pub
30 The Hundred
Romsey
SO51 8BD
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The Mad House Bar
Roy Vanderweele
13-15 High St
Margate
CT9 1DL
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Mills Bakery
Royal William Yard
Plymouth
Devon
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Preton Ltd.
28 Brunswick Square
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 1EJ
www.preton.com
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Foden Estates Ltd.
PO Box 863
Milner Street
Warrington
Cheshire
WA4 6XR
www.fodenestates.co.uk
Questions and Answers
Question/
How many extra songs can be stored on the USB stick?
Answer/
The USB stick can hold 7.36GB of data.
The existing songs (over 1,000) take up 13mb of space, which means
you can add more than 50,000 more songs.
Question/
Can you download songs from the internet and have
them play through the piano with the keys moving?
Answer/
If the songs are only the piano sound (with no
backing or other instruments playing) then yes, you
can download more songs onto the USB stick and play
them through the piano with the keys moving.
You can also do this by using a USB cable to
connect the piano directly with a computer,
laptop, or tablet.
If they are songs that have backing or other
instruments then they can still be played through
the piano, but the keys won’t move.
Question/
Can you record what you are playing on the piano,
save it, then play it back with the keys moving?
Answer/
Yes, you can do that.
Q/ Hello.
I would love to have a baby grand piano for a house we are renovating and moving into in a few months.
I don’t play at all but love the idea of a self play. I am very interested in your rental scheme with option to buy.
I have a few questions, Is there anywhere I can download a list of the songs that are pre loaded ? How many additional songs would fit on the USB stick and can some of the pre loaded be deleted if not required and can an additional USB stick be bought? Can they be linked to a Tablet ?
I understand they can be played as a normal piano if required ?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Lynda Oakes
Monmouth
R/ Hi Lynda
Please see attached list of the complete song library
on the Broadway MK11 digital baby grand piano
with moving keys.
The MK11 has wooden keys and a USB stick that
stores all the songs.
There is loads of space on the USB stick for
you to add your own songs. The USB stick
is only using 13MB of a total of 7.36GB, so you
can load onto there more than 50,000!
An additional USB stock or SD card isn’t available
at the moment. Only the one provided with the
piano will work.
You can link the piano to any tablet, laptop
or computer.
Yes, it can also be played as a normal piano.
Yours pianistically,
Graham Howard
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Q/ Hi
I have been thinking about a player piano for quite some time and we may
now have the space in the kitchen for one.
I fell in love with the idea after listening to a friends player piano in
America and although I can’t play the piano myself, I simply love the sound.
One question I do have, is it possible to upload midi files to the piano
or is it a proprietary format? Trying to understand where and how I can
upload music from.
Thanks, Mark
A/ Dear Mark
The Broadway MK11 is the most versatile and advanced
digital grand player piano.
It has over 1,000 popular songs stored on the USB stick.
These will play through the piano with the keys moving
up and down in sync.
It is possible to add more songs to the USB stick.
Anything that is in MIDI file format can be loaded
on to the USB stick and played through the piano.
mfiles.co.uk is a website that has lots of classical
music downloads in MIDI format, but I’m not sure
of any others. Just search on the Google ‘download
midi files for piano’.
Regards
Graham Howard
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Dear Sir / Madam,
We might want to purchase a self playing piano for our hotel lobby.
Would you please let us know what you have?
Thank you and Best Regards,
Reply/ Hi
If it is an acoustic piano you would like then I recommend
the Yamaha Disklavier.
Yamaha make the best self-playing acoustic pianos.
Another option is to go for the Broadway MK11
digital self-playing piano.
The Broadway is popular among hotels, bars and restaurants.
It has 1000’s of built-in songs covering most styles of
music, and all the most popular ones are there.
You can easily set the piano to play any of them,
in any combination. This can also be done with the
remote control that comes with it.
Additional songs can also be downloaded from the
internet then added to the piano via the USB stick
or USB cable, whichever you prefer.
Downloading new songs from the internet to the
piano is usually free.
The keys also move up and down when it self-plays.
It can also be operated with the remote control.
Let me know if you would like more information.
Kind regards,
Graham Howard
Further/ Dear Graham,
May I know which hotels/restaurants etc. have been using the Broadway MK11?
Thank you and Best Regards,
Reply/ Hi
Here is a list of some of the hotels that have bought
a Broadway MK10 or MK11:
Marriott, Powerscourt Hotel, Ireland
Appleby Castle, Cumbria, The Lake District
Tracy Park Golf & Country Luxury Hotel, Bath Road, Wick, Bristol, BS30 5RN (www.tracypark.co.uk)
Lythe Hill Hotel, Restaurant and Spa, Petworth Rd, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 3BQ (www.lythehill.co.uk)
Langdon Court Hotel, Adam’s Lane, Down Thomas, Plymouth PL9 0DY (www.langdoncourt.com)
And here’s some of the restaurants:
~Meejana Restaurant, 241 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 9HP (www.meejana.co.uk)
~Cocos Italian Restaurant, WA14 1RP
~The Dome, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2NZ
~Charlie Franks, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 1QX (www.charliefranks.co.uk)
The MK11 is also very popular in private homes, nursing homes
and is in many shopping centres througout the UK.
This would be an ideal piano for your lobby, as you can
set it to play a sequence of songs or any type of music
(over 1000 available built-in to the piano).
The volume level is large, so you can adjust it to what you want.
It can also be controlled remotely.
Kind regards,
Graham Howard
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Question/ I am looking for a piano to entertain… pretend to play/karaoke i bought one about 10 years ago (Suzuki) great for partys but takes floppy discs and now out of date.
Reply/ Hi Chris,
The Broadway MK11 is certainly the most entertaining Digital Grand available, it has a self-playing feature where the keys move up and down (the only Grand Piano that can still do so) and with a wide internal library of songs, incorporating some fine Classical and Jazz compositions, it is a most impressive instrument. You will be able to load your personal favourites very easily and even download your own choices by loading MIDI files onto the provided USB memory stick. Naturally, the piano can be played organically also and a wonderful instrument it is too, with a very authentic key touch and soundboard containing a spread of precise and highly refined speakers to reproduce a stunningly warm and accurate piano sound. It is also available on rent-to-own for £199 per month.
I hope this information helps.
Kind Regards,
Jason, UK Pianos
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The Broadway MK11 is similar to the old, discontinued Robertson RP3000.
Question/ How do I download additional songs and put them on the piano?
Reply/ There are several file sharing sites which allow for download of MIDI files to load onto your USB stick. A classical music site I found was mfiles.co.uk – I would encourage you to also look at several others on Google. Once the files are loaded onto the USB stick then insert the USB stick into the piano and they will be available to select on the LCD sceen. The piano will play any piano piece or piano song and the correct keys will move up and down on their own. It’s quite amazing!
Graham Howard –
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