> By the way: > (if you allow a lastlast question) > How does the arrival of the digital piano > influence the piano technicians. I think, the digital piano is the future! > (Except high end top level super > pianos.)Have some electronics training! > > Don't say, they cannot deliver timbre, or sensitive sound modulation. Recall > what a mechanical piano > can do: the player presses a key, either slow or > fast. Then he releases the key and the tone ends. > That's it all! The only way to influence > the piano sound is the speed of the keypress/release. > And this action can be sensed by electronic switches. > According to the measured speed the sound will be > processed. Today's cutbacks are not a good counterargument e.g. passive > string resonance (if I hold down a key and play some other keys, don't know > better english words..)is only a software problem and will eventually be there. > > I have seen pianists approaching with contempt and > laughter and leaving lost in thought, from the digital thing. > > Yours > Helmut Wabnig > wabi@net4you.co.at > > Oo -oo, I have a big problem with this. Perhaps *some* pianists think digitals are fine--but pianists who are musicians will probably come down with a fine case of tendonitis after trying to pull expression out of a digital instrument. Just can't get those nuances to speak on a digital! Barbara Richmond, pianist & piano technician Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, Illinois brichmon@titan.iwu.edu
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