This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:05 PM Subject: electronic pianos My chair is considering putting electronic pianos in applied studios ************************** You might have your chair read Keith Akins' articles on Digital = Keyboards in the January and February 2002 issues of the Journal. Keith = lists some advantages and some disadvantages of digital keyboards, as = well as appropriate and inappropriate situations for their use. Your = chair may be leaning toward inappropriate use. Keith also makes the distinction between piano and digital keyboard. = "Grand piano," "transposing piano," "upright piano," "square piano," = "player piano," and even "electro-piano" such as the Rhodes, were all = instruments that Cristofori would have recognized as containing his = creation. "Features that each of these instruments had in common was a = key activated hammer action that created the tone acoustically by = striking a vibrating metal object of some sort." "But the digital = keyboard is not just another electronically amplified acoustic = instrument. Beyond the key coverings, there is nothing inside a digital = keyboard that Cristofori would recognize." John Baird Millikin University Decatur, Illinois ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/10/6b/e4/ad/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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