Hi Ric. My take is this : with vulgarization (this means, making the features available to everyone), you make things vulgar (this means with no highly appraised subjective value). If one can at one fingertip change the temperament of the keyboard without any cost or effort, one surely will do, then try the other, then the next one, then the tuning number 13, then the number 45, then go back to the kitchen have another muffin. Of course, the guy who runs whole europe seeking historical organs and listening to and transcribing their temperaments, studying them and their adequation to some repertoire, then developping esoteric techniques to try and duplicate then by ear, well, this guy will live another experience. But who will do that when the ease is at hand ? Again, who takes the time to fully transcribe with own hand, pen and paper, a book he particularly likes, and wants to possess ? It is all a question of value : if the instrument doesn't cost much, then, the experience playing it will be of little value. The real value is how you are when you do it. Best regards. Stéphane Collin. > > But I am still sitting here missing an answer to a perhaps uncomfortable > but perhaps very relevant question... one that we all may have to face in > increasing degree sooner then we may think. > IF.... one first accepts for the moment that an electronic based replica > of an acoustic piano could be made so as to be indiscernible in every > acoustic and touch sense of the word... what would be so bad about > this.... indeed.... what would the consequences be good / bad / or neither > ? >
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