The concept for the Concert H ands began in 1999. The Florida based company was created in 2001 and later became Rubato Productions Inc.  Inventor, and President, Rob McGregor and Info-Tek Associates Inc. have developed the Concert Hands over a period of seven years.

The goal of this trademarked and patented product is to revolutionize the learning process of playing the piano and keyboard and in the near future other musical instruments.

Research began by using a computer graphic projection of a piano keyboard. Then Colored lights would indicate which keys to be played next. By projecting the image to a mirror above the piano it was reflected onto real piano keys. The image was reversed in the mirror, but then was corrected by the projector. A large track ball mouse was used, after removing the ball, and using one foot to advance to the next lighted keys to be played.  Once you got used to the various finger stretches of advanced chords you could play songs of the most advanced level, though not at normal tempo. You could not play fast tempo or advanced chord structure songs because there would be too many lighted keys changing at too quick a pace. Hand/eye reaction time could never be fast enough though many volunteers tried.

Products that existed on the market at the time had the same problem. They lit up the piano keys for you to push next within the songs they supplied. However, those lights could only be followed in simple songs. You could not play very advanced music and as a result people became bored with playing songs at a basic level and the novelty wore off.

That's where the Concert Hands concept comes in. Two carriages move you hands and fingers to the black and white keys and finger sleeves guide your fingers down to lower each key at the proper time.

The Concert Hands is the future of learning the piano!