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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
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title=Wimblees@aol.com>Wimblees@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
href="mailto:caut@ptg.org"
title=caut@ptg.org>caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 25, 2002 =
5:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> electronic =
pianos</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>My chair is =
considering putting
electronic pianos in applied studios</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV>John Baird</DIV>
<DIV>Millikin University</DIV>
<DIV>Decatur, Illinois</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>