[pianotech] Funny Advice?

[Pianoman]

Hi,
I defer to your more closer knowledge of the digitals.  What do you mean 
"tweaked by frequency content and such"?
Thanks,
James
James Grebe
Since 1962
Piano Tuning & Repair
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Products(
314) 608-4137   1526 Raspberry Lane   Arnold, MO 63010
Researcher of St. Louis Theatre History
BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
www.grebepiano.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Mannino" <donmannino at ca.rr.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Funny Advice?


> James,
>
> That is not really true of the digital pianos I am familiar with.  They 
> are
> pure samples piano sounds, but of course they are tweaked for frequency
> content and such.  No chorusing is added - they are recordings of a 
> concert
> grand with normal well tuned unisons.
>
> The Kawai digital pianos have reverb turned on by default, but it can be
> turned off.  Either way, they still play and sound like a digital piano.
> Usable, but not very musically satisfying still.
>
> Low-end electronic keyboards are another thing entirely - those have very
> strange affects added to the "piano" sounds.  Maybe that's what you were
> referring to.
>
> Don Mannino
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Pianoman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:56 AM
> To: pianotuner at embarqmail.com; pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Funny Advice?
>
> Hi,
> That is why digital pianos do not have a pure piano tone.  They give them 
> a
> chorus effect to make them seem more real.  Perfect is detected and
> interpreted as phony.
> James
> James Grebe
> Since 1962
> Piano Tuning & Repair
> Creator of Handsome Hardwood Products(
> 314) 608-4137   1526 Raspberry Lane   Arnold, MO 63010
> Researcher of St. Louis Theatre History
> BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
> www.grebepiano.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Barnard" <pianotuner at embarqmail.com>
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:51 PM
> Subject: [pianotech] Funny Advice?
>
>
> Actual verbage from the repair and tuning manual for the Hammond Chord
> Organ:
>
>>>>   Remember that small differences in tuning are highly desirable 
>>>> because
>
>>>> they add a "chorus effect" which gives added richness to the tone. 
>>>> <<<
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> Dang ... so here I've spent all these years being fussy for nothing? Maybe
> it's just me, but I don't think unisons should sound too much like a
> "chorus".
>
> Alan Barnard
>
> "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though 
> I
>
> think it is hopeless." Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, CINCPAC WWII
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