Alan, My guess is that that's because the piano covers such a broad spectrum of sound that picking it all up with ANY microphone is near impossible. Then it has to be replayed through speakers, which, no matter how good, are not a spruce soundboard. Dave Stahl -----Original Message----- From: reggaepass at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 5:21 AM Subject: Re: electronics replacing pianos? ..and the piano seems to be one of the hardest instruments to faithfully reproduce through recording, if not the hardest. Any thoughts as to why that is? Alan Eder -----Original Message----- What they ultimately proved is that no matter how good the recording and the playback systems, there is always some extra lows and some extra highs and some extra nuance that just plain won't record or playback. I think the same holds true for even the high-end sampled electronic pianos today. They do sound pretty darn good, but they don't really sound real. And I don't think that they will be able to reproduce a real enough sound from an electronic device anytime soon enough for it to effect many of us. -- Geoff Sykes -- Assoc. Los Angeles Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070105/de7ae35a/attachment.html
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