Silkrin

Silkrin is a place where the piano is the interface. There is no social feed, no followers, no comments layer. Only rooms and pianos.

Open a room. Share the link. Play together — or hold a concert for the world. Every note is streamed as a tiny event, rendered through the same grand piano on every listener's device. No video lag. No audio compression. Just the piano.

How it works

When you press a key, Silkrin sends a note event — a few bytes describing which key, how hard, and when. Every connected listener receives that event and plays the corresponding note through their own copy of the piano. The result is near-instant, high-fidelity musical collaboration.

Design philosophy

Every room should feel like a room with a piano in it — not a web app with a piano widget. The interface recedes. The music speaks. We believe the best technology is the kind you forget is there.

The piano

Silkrin's default sound comes from the Salamander Grand Piano — a free, open-source recording of a Yamaha C5 grand. Every key was sampled at multiple velocities. The audio is rendered entirely in your browser using the Web Audio API. No streaming servers, no video calls, no latency.

Open source audio

The Salamander Grand Piano samples are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) by Alexander Holm. We are grateful for this contribution to open music.