PianoDisc
Three things a fine piano can be taught, without changing a single thing about the way it plays. To perform on its own. To remember what you played. To fall completely silent when the house is asleep.
Three Systems, One Piano
Each is fitted beneath the keys of the instrument you already own. Each can be installed alone, or together.
Prodigy II
- It plays — the piano performs on its own
- 1,024 levels of key expression
- Low Profile or Standard Profile
ProRecord XI
- It remembers — your playing, captured
- Up to 8,000 readings a second
- 88 voices, 10 song banks
QuietTime
- It falls silent — practise through headphones
- Mute rail stops the hammers
- AutoMute for grand pianos
Where the Piano Plays
SilentDrive technology uses patented electro-mechanical solenoids beneath the keys and pedals to govern movement, velocity and duration — 1,024 levels of expression, so a whispered phrase stays whispered.
It is not a recording through speakers. The hammers move, the strings sound, and the room fills with the voice of your own instrument, playing a performance recorded by a pianist who is not in the room.
Fitted with Low Profile, the components disappear into the body of the piano. No boxes, no visible cables. Prodigy II connects to an iPhone or iPad over Bluetooth through the iQ Player app, and answers a HomePod, an Amazon Echo or an Apple Watch.
Two Profiles, Three Packages
All three carry the full 1,024 levels of expression and the complimentary PianoDisc music library. Low Profile hides every component within the body of the piano.
Entertainment
Prodigy II in Low or Standard Profile, 1,024 levels of expression, the iQ Player app for iPhone and iPad, and the complimentary music library.
Interactive
Everything in Entertainment, with the ProScan optical MIDI record and sensor system — your own playing captured as you play it.
QuietTime
Everything in Entertainment, with the piano silencer, the ProRecord optical sensor system, and a sound module of 88 voices and 10 song banks.
Hearing Yourself Honestly
A slender optical strip is fitted beneath the keys. It reads the movement of each key with light rather than touch — nothing presses against the action, and the piano feels exactly as it did before.
Play the passage, then listen back as an audience hears it. Students find their own unevenness in seconds, and correct it without being told. A lesson recorded is a lesson that continues at home.
For the studio, ProRecord sends MIDI out of a real action and into the software you already work in — the weight and response of a fine piano, with the freedom of a session file.
Sensing optical strip beneath the keys, up to 8,000 readings a second.
Voices 88 instrument sounds, 4 GB sound memory.
Recording 10 song banks, built-in metronome.
Effects reverb, chorus, delay, transposition, dynamic curves.
Connection Bluetooth 5.1, USB Type-C, MIDI, line in, audio out.
Fits grand and upright; most 88-note pianos, 85-key by arrangement.
Practice at Any Hour
A switch engages the silencer and the hammers stop just short of the strings. The optical strip beneath the keys carries what you play to your headphones, so the instrument under your hands is unchanged and the room around you is quiet.
AutoMute, new for grand pianos, does the same at the touch of a button — one-touch electronic silencing, fitted discreetly, for homes, studios and teaching rooms.
The Installation
Nothing is cut, drilled through, or permanently altered. The pedals work as they always did. The keys weigh what they always weighed.
Certified. Authorised. Here.
As the authorised PianoDisc dealer for the UAE and GCC, we fit, calibrate and support every system ourselves — from our own workshop in Al Quoz, by technicians who spend their working lives inside grand pianos.
PianoDisc requires installation by a certified technician, and for good reason. A system is only as good as the hands that fit it. Regulation after installation is what separates a piano that plays beautifully from one that merely plays, and it is done here, on your instrument, by the people who will still be here when you need them.
Book a Demonstration
Let our showroom grand play for you. Then play it yourself and listen back. Tell us which system interests you and our consultant will arrange a time.
Tuning, moving, repair, assessment or rental — tell us what you need and our technicians will get back to you with availability and a quote. We service all piano makes across the UAE and Middle East
PianoDisc FAQ
Almost certainly. PianoDisc systems are installed in new and pre-owned acoustic grand and upright pianos, and have been fitted to instruments of every description for more than thirty-five years. Send us the make, model and serial number, or let us come and see the instrument.
No. The sensors read the keys optically and touch nothing. Installation does not affect the touch of the instrument, and every normal function — keys, pedals, action — continues to work as before.
With Low Profile, the components are hidden within the body of the piano and are virtually invisible once installed. No boxes, no visible cables.
Prodigy II plays the piano for you. ProRecord records what you play. They can be fitted together, and the Prodigy II QuietTime package includes both.
Yes. QuietTime fits a mute rail that stops the hammers before the strings, and you listen through headphones. For grand pianos, AutoMute does the same at the touch of a button.
Yes. Each system can be fitted on its own and added to afterwards by the same technician.
We do. PianoDisc requires installation by a certified technician. We carry it out from our own workshop in Al Quoz and calibrate the system to your instrument afterwards.
