> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mitch, From a composers point of view, in the educaional arena, other than for 'class piano' use, one great advantage of electronic pianos (via MIDI) is their ability to translate music into multitrack / tambre sequence's for composition students, and their use for notation programs. They are great tools. Their (ele. keyboards) success in the real world of commercial music, (recording & performing) and where the jobs are after graduation, has made it necessary to include them in a music program. Not a substitute for a piano though. The theory and comp professors and students want some, right? The piano majors want the real thing. Dan Reed PS Kind of like comparing the differences between electric and acoustic guitars... on 2/21/01 10:00 PM, Mitch Staples at staples.13@osu.edu wrote: This afternoon I was asked by the director of the school of music what I thought of the idea of having electronic pianos in the classrooms rather than acoustic. They figure that this way they could use some of the mounds of money slated for technology i. e. computers to buy pianos. My reply was quite predictably that I thought it was a bad idea. I would like some input: 1. Does anyone have experience with electronic pianos in classrooms? Are they working out? 2. I would like to hear some opinions. What do you see as the pros and cons? Thanks, Mitch Staples Ohio State University ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/eb/07/16/f9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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