I'm Richie Hayes, a piano technician and electrical engineer. For 32 years I have worked inside Yamaha Disklaviers and PianoDisc systems. Along the way I built the music, the apps and the parts that owners could not find anywhere else.
No one is touching these keys. That is the whole idea.
I build things faster than I can write about them, and I can't even keep up with myself. For what I'm working on this week, find me on YouTube and on the PianoStream page on Facebook. That is where most people know me from, and where the new stuff shows up first.
Real pianists, playing live on your piano. I started PianoStream so a player piano could have new music every day, from MauColi's pop arrangements to the classical masters. An app for iPhone and iPad. Nearly 300 stations.
Pick a station and your piano plays, like a radio. Nothing to install: open the page on a phone or a computer and connect your piano. No piano nearby? It plays a sampled grand through your speakers.
Run a PianoDisc iQ from your iPad. Play your own music library with playlists and schedules, and set the piano and the music to separate volumes so the two stay in balance. An iPad app I designed for PianoDisc iQ owners.
Replacement power supplies for PianoDisc systems, built at my bench. When the original supply fails, the piano stops playing. This brings it back. Tell me your system and I'll tell you what fits.
Cables for Yamaha Disklavier pianos. Not sure which one you need? Ask.
The player-piano receiver with a screen. It connects your phone to the piano by Bluetooth, calibrates each key, limits the volume and can add a backing band. Designed and built here.
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Short and sweet. Video not playing? Watch it on YouTube.
I'm Richard Hayes. I run Hayes Electronics from Pleasant Grove, Utah, and I have been a piano technician and electrical engineer for 32 years, most of it spent inside Disklaviers and PianoDisc systems.
Most of what is on this page exists because a customer had a problem nobody was solving: a dead power supply, a cable they could not find, a piano with nothing new to play. So I built the answer.
Conceived, designed and built by Richard Hayes.