[pianotech] Acoustic vs. digital - there's no question!

[David Boyce]

David (Weiss) (incidentally my own piano is a Weissbrod!), thank you for 
posting your information sheet. I especially like your paragraph on why 
digital keyboards are no good for children; the missing "pleasure" 
element.  I have often explained something very like this to parents, 
and have quite often had parents say that when they got a real piano - 
even an old birdcage - the child abandoned the keyboard and is never off 
the piano.

I am not a pianist but I have learned a few classical and other pieces, 
and from my own experience too, I can say that the pleasure is just 
MISSING from the digital keyboards, whereas sometimes on a good day if I 
am playing my linited repertoire well, there is real delight and 
pleasure in the real piano.  I can see, of course, that if I was a 
professional musician, able to play at a good standard, the digital 
keyboard could be a fantastically useful tool.

Chuck, I love your method of demonstrating the difference!  Not quite so 
easy, perhaps, with the beat-up old birdcage. And yet, in my experience, 
even the beat-up old birdcage has the pleasure factor (the physical 
aspects that you describe so well) which the digital instrument does not.

Best regards,

David Boyce.
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