<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wim,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <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 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."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John Baird</DIV> <DIV>Millikin University</DIV> <DIV>Decatur, Illinois</DIV></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com" = title=Wimblees@aol.com>Wimblees@aol.com</A> </DIV> <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> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>My chair is = considering putting electronic pianos in applied studios, </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>