--- description: Find out why ROLI LUMI is one of the best inventions of 2019. title: ROLI LUMI: The 100 Best Inventions of 2019 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb675f5ff97366ede/698a0640929fadea81bf54ac/best-inventions-2019-058-roli-lumi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 21, 2019 # Learn Music Visually ROLI LUMI by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  [ROLI](https://roli.com/ "undefined") has designed products intended for avid and skilled musicians, but with its latest product, LUMI, it is attempting to reach those aspiring to learn how to play. “We hope that LUMI basically closes the gap between people’s love of music in general and their fear about playing it themselves,” says Will MacNamara, head of communications at ROLI. The LUMI keyboard is small, and it lights up to allow users to learn which keys to play. With an accompanying app, users can learn their favorite songs and work their way up to full music lessons. It has received more than $2 million in Kickstarter funding and will be distributed to funders in November. By 2020, ROLI hopes to roll LUMI out to schools across the U.S. It will be available to the wider public for $250 in January. _—Jasmine Aguilera_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2019/5733073/roli-lumi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2019/5733073/roli-lumi/"},"headline":"Learn Music Visually","datePublished":"2019-11-21T01:43:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:36:45.758Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2019/5733073/roli-lumi/","keywords":["Best Inventions 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb675f5ff97366ede/698a0640929fadea81bf54ac/best-inventions-2019-058-roli-lumi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb675f5ff97366ede/698a0640929fadea81bf54ac/best-inventions-2019-058-roli-lumi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2019/5733073/roli-lumi/","name":"Learn Music Visually"}}]}] ```