Along with partners Tonchidot and Densan System, Yamaha has developed a new iPhone application that allows users to play piano on their smart phones. The app, called Finger Piano Share, allows up to 10 people to play a virtual keyboard at the same time and offers a range of other features by which they can share the music they have created.
The app, though still in development at this time, allows users of the iPhone or iPod Touch, to use their touch screens as keyboards to strike virtual keys that correspond with musical notes. Using a system similar to widely recognized video games such as Dance Dance Revolution, Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Finger Piano Share prompts users on which keys to press when through on screen visual cues. Players who have a Yamaha MIDI-equipped piano hooked up to a computer connected with the internet will be able to play the piano from their mobile device.
Using geotagging from Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera app, the iPhone’s camera becomes a viewer so that users can see tags and files left by other users at specific locations. When the file is selected, the Finger Piano Share player will play back the previously recorded music.