David Boyce said: "From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Is this the work of an RPT? Message-ID: <4E5F541E.1080308 at piano.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Not sure whether I should have started another thread with this, as it's going off-topic a bit. But I wanted to say, interesting anecdote Ger. I was chatting to a client the week before last, who is a high school music teacher, and also an HMiE (Her Majesty's inspectorate for Education) for Music - a schools inspector for music. She was adamant that her electronic keyboard was just "a tool", useful for doing certain things, but that for playing pleasure, it would always be the old Bechstein. Another client is the same; a music teaqcher and performer with an excellent reputation (and ability to match), he has a good quality 'digital piano' as well as a very high quality upright piano. For playing pleasure, it's always the piano. The 'digital piano' is a useful addition, but not a substitute. The temptation for education departments to save money by buying keyboards for learning on, is unfortunate. They are better than nothing, and can be a useful music tool, with headphones etc. But just because they have 88 black and white keys that go up and down, that doesn't mean they're really as good as a piano! Best regards," David, The first thing we ALL need to do is...Quit calling them Pianos!!! They are NOT! They are, at best, PSOs that kind of sound like pianos, but really don't.<G> (If a high quality amplifier is used, the piano sound is VERY close...AMHIK!) They almost FEEL like a piano, but really don't. (even though some espouse that "...it has a real piano action..." Whatever) The fact remains, that many teachers jumped on that bandwagon, many years ago. They found that the students did not advance as rapidly when they were practicing on Electronic/Digital KEYBOARDS! The "weighted".."..Just like a Piano action" thangs do not promote Muscle Tone like a real PIANO does! Thus, the STUDENT is the loser! Having said all that, the Electronic/Digital Keyboards have a very real and active place in the field of making music. And, they have a very real part to play in the Teacher/Student picture. Not to mention all the neat things they can do for active Musicians in composing and such. For the "gigging" musician, they're the best thing since peanut butter....DAMHIK! So, they are here to stay. Just get on the band wagon and let's STOP calling them Pianos! K?!! Regards to all, Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I
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