Has it begun again?

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Has it begun again?
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 1998 9:44 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Moody wrote:
> 
> > >  Part of the presentation was an address by the
> > > genius behind the instrument, Mr Kurzweil himself.
> >
> > I would have "loved"  to point out a few faulty unisons to him.
> > Especially if it was the "sampled sound" model.
> 
> I wasn't able to speak to Mr Kurzweil personally, however I did speak to
several
> of his many assistants.  They explained that the piano couldn't possibly
have
> sounded out of tune since it had been tuned just a week or two before it
was
> sampled.  When I mentioned the word "voicing" I was speaking another
language
> and was well on my way to becoming a rabble-rouser.
> 
> -- Del

VOICING... ah... I thought that was a problem in the pressure sensors, and
the problems of realisticaly reproducing touch. Like the Ampico and
Duo-Art "problems" 
"tuned two weeks before recording samples"???  What idiots!!
How is that for "rabble-rouser"?  Good word "rabble" 

I suppose they are really gonna want to consult us now. ; ) 

All  I can say, is whoever does will most likely come up with a digital
sound that will appeal to a much wider range of performers, players, and
students. Don't worry about such devices doing away with pianos. It will
be the spinets and  consoles and crappy grands done away with, what we
shouldn't be spending time on to begin with. 
	And if they ever want a "realistic" action, who they gonna ask? 

Richard Scathing