At 04:00 PM 11/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
><snip> I had a long discussion (almost an argument) with the dealer
>about calling the Clavinova a piano. Why do they call it a piano when it
>could just as well be called an organ? It's really closer to an organ
>because of all the stops, bells, and whistles, But they call them pianos!
><snip> >Ted Simmons, Merritt Island, FL
To me, truer words have never been spoken.
piano:
Touch. The feel of the mechanism engaging and delivering your command.
Expression. The wafting harmonics producing expanding vibrations.
Emotion. Sensory interpretation.
Ok, Ok so it's in tune and not a spinet. But you get the picture.
=Music
el-piano:
Touch. No mechanism. Organ technique = Assimilation. Sounds similar to. . .
and with sufficient indoctrination, will approximate a recorded version of
same.
Expression. Volume control. Depends on speaker placement.
Emotion. Volume control, speaker placement and sobriety.
Totally Tubular
=Musak
This was a subject on r.m.m.p. a while ago. But I think there where too
many 'dealers' of these; electros outnumbered the pianos.
"Like, I can play it at three in the morning with the
headphones, man; and not wake everyone up"
Cool,
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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