---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 09:19 PM 12/25/2004 -0800, you wrote: >As a pianist, though, there is never any doubt about whether they are as=20 >satisfying to play as a real piano. There still is no comparison. > >Don Mannino RPT Don, List, When I had retail, I always had trouble selling the digitals. Had good= =20 ones, too. At the end of my retail years, there were good actions and=20 relatively good sound generation. Better than some spinets or even=20 consoles, but....... Boredom and fatigue are definite problems with digitals because of the= =20 simple physics of energy. Remember.... energy doesn't just "go away". A=20 real piano, with strings and hammers and sound boards and back checks,=20 returns some of the energy input. When input and output form a feedback=20 loop, response (control and satisfaction) invigorates the user. It was always fun to watch really good players, especially organists,= =20 adapt the repertoire to the voice (stop) that was punched up for them.=20 Sometimes it was just amazing. For those digitals with multi-temperaments,= =20 the instrument could actually inspire varying renditions of classical=20 pieces. Totally entertaining. But every one of those excellent players=20 would tucker out after no more than half an hour. Even when there was a=20 "zero" volume, like unspoken escapement, and good damper physical modeling= =20 (multi-step, etc.), the control just wasn't there without Herculean effort. As it's been said, there is a place for these keyboards. Tools, like=20 ETDs, that can be used. The ear, though, is the final judge, and that=20 starts with the ear of the performer. On sound quality alone, some=20 keyboards might pass. When the feed back loop is valued, Don said=20 it..."there is still no comparison". Yet. Just my 2 =A2, Later, Guy Nichols, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f2/ef/5a/02/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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