You can't argue with a stop sign '-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Terry Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 2/16/2010 4:44:27 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Advice about intermittent note on Yamaha grand >Can't the same be said of the electric guitar? I mean before the >invention of the electric guitar in the 30's, all guitars were >acoustic - so why don't we have only guitars and electric guitars >today? Are you familiar with the Yamaha CP-70 and CP-80? >http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pages/YamahaCP70B.htm > It has a grand piano action, hammers, piano damper system and >strings strung in a cast iron frame - only thing different is no >soundboard. I agree with your second paragraph, but not with the >first. Some things can be a bit cloudy. >You're saying a motorcycle is not a cycle - only a bicycle is. >Nonsense. Things evolve and new creatures are created. Just because a >salesperson tries to cloud the distinction between the two species, >doesn't mean that they are indeed very different animals. >I suspect we had better drop this one before someone scolds us for >arguing minutia! :-) >If you feel the need for one more retort, wind up and fire away!!! >Terry Farrell >On Feb 15, 2010, at 8:02 PM, David Weiss wrote: >> Why? I mean it is acoustic, is it not? Like acoustic guitar and >> electric guitar - Yamaha C1 and Yamaha CP-80. Digital piano? Seems >> pretty digital to me. >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> >> >> By definition a piano is acoustic, and can only be acoustic, therefore >> "acoustic piano" is redundant. Conversely, the term "digital piano" >> is an >> oxymoron. >> >> "Acoustic and digital piano" are terms created by corporate marketing >> departments in their quest to cloud the distinction between pianos and >> electric keyboard instruments. Yamaha publicly stated this as one >> of their >> goals about 20 years ago. It's easier to sell an electric keyboard >> than it >> is a piano, especially if you can make the public believe they are >> musically >> equivalent. Additionally with two categories of options, acoustic and >> digital, spanning a wide price range, fewer people leave the piano >> store >> empty handed. >> >> David Weiss >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] >> On Behalf >> Of Terry Farrell >> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:00 PM >> To: pianotech at ptg.org >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Advice about intermittent note on Yamaha >> grand >> >> Why? I mean it is acoustic, is it not? Like acoustic guitar and >> electric guitar - Yamaha C1 and Yamaha CP-80. Digital piano? Seems >> pretty digital to me. >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:54 AM, David Weiss wrote: >> >>> I will use the term baby grand when speaking with a client, but >>> otherwise I >>> will refer to grands by model number or length. >>> >>> The term I refuse to use, even if subjected to torture, is "acoustic >>> piano". >>> Conversely the term "digital piano" has never passed my lips. That >>> however, >>> is another subject. >>> >>> David Weiss >>
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