Siri hacked to play piano

Siri has basically nothing to do with this. There is no hack to make it work with Siri. They are just using it as a voice controlled play button.

From the original article - "[It] works by streaming a special MIDI version of the music file through an Apple Airport Express and into the Disklavier piano, which then reproduces the piece, complete with key and pedal impressions."

This reminded me how much I wanted a Disklavier. I've played piano for much of my life, and when I acquired a Roland Juno 5 years ago, the first thing I did was write some custom MIDI software to... test it out. While I'd probably be more careful with such expensive equipment, I'd love to know what happens if I fed it the same program that fried a voice chip on the Juno.

(Like cleverjake pointed out, the music is really made by the Disklavier's controller. Still a fun hack.)

It appears from the comments on that video that the iPhone is actually the control device. It's sending MIDI commands over Wifi to that piano.

The most interesting thing about that video is that I'd love to have such a piano in my living room just to have it play great piano music for me all day.

I'm skeptical. Hard to explain why, just a feeling. Not enough technical details to explain how this is supposedly being done. The entire video has a hoaxy feeling to it.

I'd love to be proven wrong, if anyone has related info.

Whether real or not, this would look more legit if there weren't so many jump cuts.