Electric pianos have their place, and do serve a purpose, as Jerry and David mentioned. But here is some information I give customers who want to buy one of them The tech rep for a major piano manufacturer gave a technical once where he said that his company invents a new electrictronic keyboard every 10 months, and once it's made, it's obsolete after 18 months. Once a model is made, the instrument is guaranteed for only a year, and the manufacturer is not obligated to keep spare parts around for longer than that. In humid climates, like here in Hawaii, the electric components rust out after three - five years. But since the parts for these things are no longer available, the instrument become useless. On the other hand, I can repair a hundred year old piano with past I have in my tool box. Wim Blees, RPT Hawaii -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 6:06 am Subject: [pianotech] Electronic Keyboards - NOT "pianos"!! David Boyce said: "From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> o: pianotech at ptg.org ubject: Re: [pianotech] Is this the work of an RPT? essage-ID: <4E5F541E.1080308 at piano.plus.com> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" ot sure whether I should have started another thread with this, as it's oing off-topic a bit. But I wanted to say, interesting anecdote Ger. I as chatting to a client the week before last, who is a high school usic teacher, and also an HMiE (Her Majesty's inspectorate for ducation) for Music - a schools inspector for music. She was adamant hat her electronic keyboard was just "a tool", useful for doing certain hings, but that for playing pleasure, it would always be the old echstein. Another client is the same; a music teaqcher and performer ith an excellent reputation (and ability to match), he has a good uality 'digital piano' as well as a very high quality upright piano. or playing pleasure, it's always the piano. The 'digital piano' is a seful addition, but not a substitute. he temptation for education departments to save money by buying eyboards for learning on, is unfortunate. They are better than othing, and can be a useful music tool, with headphones etc. But just ecause they have 88 black and white keys that go up and down, that oesn't mean they're really as good as a piano! est regards," avid, he first thing we ALL need to do is...Quit calling them Pianos!!! They are OT! They are, at best, PSOs that kind of sound like pianos, but really on't.<G> (If a high quality amplifier is used, the piano sound is VERY lose...AMHIK!) They almost FEEL like a piano, but really don't. (even hough some espouse that "...it has a real piano action..." Whatever) The act remains, that many teachers jumped on that bandwagon, many years ago. hey found that the students did not advance as rapidly when they were racticing on Electronic/Digital KEYBOARDS! The "weighted".."..Just like a iano action" thangs do not promote Muscle Tone like a real PIANO does! hus, the STUDENT is the loser! aving said all that, the Electronic/Digital Keyboards have a very real and ctive place in the field of making music. And, they have a very real part o play in the Teacher/Student picture. Not to mention all the neat things hey can do for active Musicians in composing and such. For the "gigging" usician, they're the best thing since peanut butter....DAMHIK! o, they are here to stay. Just get on the band wagon and let's STOP alling them Pianos! K?!! egards to all, oe oe Garrett, R.P.T. aptain of the Tool Police quares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110902/af8ac79e/attachment.htm>
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