Learn piano

[Peter Kestens]

It all depends of what you want to learn and what you like to hear:
whatever sailsmen are truying to tell you: the sound of a digital^piano is
never and wan't ever be the same as the sound of a "classical" piano.  A
digital piano produces the sound of a sampled piano.  Whatever touchweight
and feeling of playing may be: it never equals the way of mechanical
playing of a calssical piano.  In a digital piano you have electronic
contacts, i.e. there is contact or none.  You can't control the way of
producing the sound, with a normal grand it is very good possible due to
the echappement.

All this doesn't mean there no good electronic piano's, not at all.  But
when you prefer the sound of a classical piano above this of a digital
piano, you have to know the advantages of a cassical piano but also the
desadvantages, i. e. tuning and regulating or in an other way normal costs
for keeping a good piano in a good way.  When you don't wan't this tuniong
and regulating,  buy a digital piano but know also the (des)advantages.

Peter Kestens
KESTENS.P@DEBCOM.BE
BELGIUM
> Van: DGPEAKE <DGPEAKE@aol.com>
> Aan: pianotech@ptg.org
> Onderwerp: Re: Learn piano
> Datum: mardi 21 avril 1998 3:44
> 
> In a message dated 98-04-19 15:23:30 EDT, you write:
> 
> << 
>  Hi!
>  I'm from Argentina so sorry for my bad english.
>  I play piano and I have a digital piano (Roland-RD500). I've been
>  learning piano since 1995. I began with a acoustic piano (only the first
>  year because it was crashed).
>  The question is: Can I learn to play piano with my digital piano?
>  
>  Thanks!!!
>  
>   >>
> You can learn the basic fingering and scales from a digital piano.  But
it
> will not replace the escapement that an acoustic piano has.  Sound from a
> digital is produced electronically.  Sound from an acoustic piano is
produced
> mechanically.
> 
> Also it is a matter of investment.  What will the digital piano be worth
after
> you own it a year?  Technology such as computers changes an average of
every
> 18 months.  Pianos do not.  They will retain the investment much better.
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> Dave Peake, RPT
> Portland, OR