The Keyboard Philharmonic is a music charity which enlists music lovers to transcribe opera and classical music scores into a revisable, shareable, digital format, and then give those digital scores away for free. One way to think of it is as a way to bring Mozart and Beethoven’s scores into the digital age. Unlike many admirable existing ventures in music score notation and music technology, So, the Keyboard Philharmonic focusses on three distinctive elements. 1. the Keyboard Philharmonic is a vehicle for recruiting people and structuring their work for useful results. We hope to follow the example of Wikipedia. It set up a website, yes, but more importantly it set up an exciting goal that attracted people, and provided structures and social norms that let them work together and create something large and rich. 2. the Keyboard Philharmonic emphasises revisable, symbolic digital notation formats over scanned image formats. Other projects and libraries have the scanned image angle covered. But few are focussing on revisable-form digital scores with high quality and good editorial standards. We believe that a high-quality digital score corpus will enable all kinds of exciting innovation. 3. the Keyboard Philharmonic aims to give its product away freely. This has both business and ethical grounds. Not many people will want to volunteer their effort to make some company rich. But Wikipedia and many other projects demonstrate that people will bring huge energy, passion, and skill to making something which is free, and which makes the world better. Others have tried to fence off this beauty and heritage in some new form, and extract rents for access. That’s not what the Keyboard Philharmonic is about. We love this music, we respect this music, we want to share this music. We welcome all music lovers to follow us, and to participate as time and passion permits. To get started, subscribe to our email announcements list, by filling the form at our website.