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It doesn't matter how good the sound system in your home is, it cannot get better than a live performance at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Yet every key the pianist is playing out there is also being struck in exactly the same way, at exactly the same time, on a piano in New York City.

The pianos are basically what makes it work. They're Yamaha Disklaviers, 21st century player pianos that can play digital files. Not only that, they also connect to the Internet which is how this new capability called Remote Live is possible.

"Remote Live allows you to have video and audio of a performer or a group of performers in one location being broadcast to receivers or people's homes all around the world and the piano performance that takes place on the broadcast end the keys are actually moved by that person to all of the receiving pianos," explains Jim Levesque of Yamaha. "In other words, a Disklavier in your living room you could watch the audio and video of lets say an Elton John concert and the notes that Elton plays on the broadcast piano are being exactly duplicated in your home."

And the technology isn't necessarily just for consuming, it can also be used for collaboration.

David Rosenboom, dean of the music school at CalArts, recently demonstrated playing a duet on a Disklavier in New York while his colleague Danny Holt played one on the West coast.

"Since Danny's not sitting next to me I can reach my arms around as if he weren't there and play anywhere on the piano he's not playing and he can do the same with me and we can fill up the keyboard with what four hands can do but yet we're on opposite sides of the country," says Rosenboom.

As for the cost of having such capable keys: the smallest upright Disklavier runs around $10,000, the largest grand piano will set you back over $200,000.