# Virtual piano keyboard soft?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtual-piano-keyboard-soft/372085>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtual-piano-keyboard-soft/372085 "2006-09-09T19:16:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtual-piano-keyboard-soft/372085/1 "2006-09-09T19:16:45Z")

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I admit it, three years worth of piano lessons have evaporated from my mind (too much water under the bridge I guess) and I can´t read a music sheet even if my life depended on it. Well, I can name the notes one by one of course, but I can´t read it as I play which is quite a bummer when I want to learn to play something new.  
So I´m wondering if there is any software that can get the notes from a MIDI file and display them on a keyboard on the the computer screen (yeah, lame but it works), pretty much like my Casio keyboard does on it´s little LCD display.

Any suggestions?, freeware would be a plus. 😉