Digital Keyboards, was electronic pianos

John Baird jbairdrpt@insightbb.com
Mon Mar 25 21:29 MST 2002


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  Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:05 PM
  Subject: electronic pianos


  My chair is considering putting electronic pianos in applied studios
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  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

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