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Meet Neo, an instrument that explores an intuitive, visual, and touch-based approach to playing music. When Dutch designer Lola Gielen realized that she loved making music but was terrible at it, she ...

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It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...