YouTube’s live video streaming on the test platform

YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live video-streaming technology. There is not a date for when development on its live-streaming technology will be finished or when the service will be offered. It is however, rumoured to only be available to Youtube partners rather than individual web users. We’re hoping that this programme will be available to individuals so that we can view live Virtual Piano performances! Fingers crossed until then!



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History of the Piano

Innovation has lead to the revolution of the piano.  The piano is founded on earlier technological innovations. The first string instruments with struck strings were the hammered dulcimers. During the Middle Ages, there were several attempts at creating stringed keyboard instruments with struck strings.  By the 17th century, the mechanisms of keyboard instruments such as the clavichord and the harpsichord were well known. In a clavichord the strings are struck by tangents, while in a harpsichord they are plucked by quills. Centuries of work on the mechanism of the harpsichord in particular had shown the most effective ways to construct the case, soundboard, bridge, and keyboard. – Wikipedia, Monday 6th September 2010.

Today the Virtual piano enables you to play the Piano on your computer - online. Digital innovation has helped shape our interactions with musical instruments. It gives us the power to reach above and beyond the limits.

We hope you continue to enjoy the Virtual Piano.

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Virtual Piano’s December 2010 Competition (Christmas Edition)

Virtual Piano will soon be announcing our online Christmas competition! We saw a rising number of participants for the July competition and we expect even more competitors for the next competition. The Christmas competition will see more prizes. So watch out for more details to be announced soon. In the meantime why not perfect your chosen piece.

Please bear in mind some of our Virtual Piano music sheet rules have been altered and make sure you use these rules when writing new music sheets. So get practising and you could treat yourselves to a Christmas present from Virtual Piano!

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Virtual Piano’s Youtube channel

Over the past couple of months you guys have been sending us your Virtual Piano performances. Over 250,000 people have viewed the Virtual Piano’s Youtube channel and our subscribers continue to grow each day! Thank you all and... tell your friends

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Virtual Piano’s World-wide Usage

VirtualPiano.net receives 51.1 million visits annually and the average time spent on VirtualPiano.net is 1 minute and 29 seconds. Our Facebook group members have risen to 19,000 and continue to increase each day. We would like to thank our worldwide community for their interest and passion for piano and more importantly for their significant contribution to innovating new music.

Keep enjoying the innovation

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August/ September Music sheets

The August/September edition of Music Sheets are now available on VirtualPiano.net. We would like to thank all those who have supplied us new transcriptions, especially our July 2010 competition entrants. You can watch their performance via our July 2010 competition video collection. We would also like to remind you that if you would like to add or edit existing music sheets please write to admin@virtualpiano.net.

We look forward to more innovation from you!

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July 2010 Competition

Virtual Piano would like to thank everyone who took part in our July completion. We had 395 competitors and 32 shortlisted and carefully considered. Choosing the winner was tough as all the entries were brilliant. Congratulations to the winners of the Virtual Piano’s July 2010 competition.


1st Place Winner - Jens Wira (1cecr34m)



2nd Place - Michael Hawkins (Bakudai)



3rd Place - Alfred Valera (Zepherus)



In the meantime you can take a look at all the competition entries through our video collection on our YouTube Channel.

Enjoy!

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