digital keyboards

[Farrell]

I often get calls from folks (typically parents looking for an instrument for a youngster) asking whether a keyboard or a piano is better. Because of all the reasons listed in these recent posts, I simply tell them that they are two different instruments. Do you want to play an accordion or an organ? Pick one, or both, and learn to play. I can point out the differences between them. I can point out the similarities. I can point out what piano teachers say about parents that won't buy a piano but rather have the kid practice on a $120 Radio Shack keyboard. I can even make many of the points listed in these posts of why some folks enjoy one over the other, but one is not necessarily better than the other.

I maintain this fair, even handed, open minded view, even if pianos are actually WAY better than any digital will ever be. Ever.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: digital keyboards


> Boy that is just the opposite of my experience with digital pianos versus an acoustic.  
> All I can get out of the digital is different instruments.  I can't get the nuances of a 
> good piano or the feedback.  There isn't even a tiny bit of comparison to the 
> pleasure of my acoustic...which is an ordinary Kawai KG500 Grand.
> 
> David I.
> 
> > Except for
> > classical music I don't care whether I am playing a piano or a
> > digital.  And with a digital, if I want a remarkable pipe organ, B3,
> > harpsichord or electric piano sound, I have it all plus much more at a
> > touch of a button.
SNIP