This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Yes, that is the key. Perfection gives away the synthetic as being = synthetic. Unisons are not pure and octaves can roll. They also add = room acoustics in the overall sound. Trying to get an overall effect = rather than crystal clear accuracy. =20 Digital organs are doing the same thing. Allen's new "Quantum" = series adds digitally sampled spatial dimensions to their digitally = sampled voices and tremulants. You should hear the wrangling that goes = on on the pipe organ lists over "real pipe " and electronic organs. = There is a real hate relationship there. So far piano techs have not = joined the battle over real and digital. =20 Or have we? Jim=20 James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups (314) 608-4137 WWW.JamesGrebe.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan Forsyth=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Year End There is good news and there is bad news from this end. I am Down from = last year on appointments by 25% but only down by 7.5% financially, = which means that profitability is actually UP. The one challenge we are going to have to address is the onslaught of = the digital piano. Traditional piano dealers are selling more of these = now than the real thing. I always try and put my customers off buying = them by saying that they lose their value very quickly, just like = computers because they become outdated (obsolete) within a few years. I = also tell them that they will soon become tired of the sound of a = digital piano (at least I do) "listener fatigue" and all that. I can = only play a digital piano for about half an hour and have to switch it = off.=20 Have any of you ever analysed the tuning on a digital piano: it's = terrible. The temperament is not very smooth at all and even the unisons = aren't all that great. However I do suspect that if they were tuned the = way we tuners would like them to be tuned, they probably wouldn't sound = like pianos at all! Any other ammunition with which to bombard the onslaught is welcome. Looking forward to another year. Burp! ----- Original Message -----=20 From: ANRPiano@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Year End In a message dated 12/25/2004 11:39:29 A.M. Central Standard Time, = hubertliverman@bellsouth.net writes: I have had a disastrous year. Your insightful post eased my = panic,reminded me of the realities of my situation, gave me hope for the = coming year,and overcome a very bleak Christmas. Thank You, Hubert Liverman ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4b/d7/62/06/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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