This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Wim, 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 point that the term "piano" really shouldn't = associated with "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 ----- 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,=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/f4/7b/66/2a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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