Has it begun again?

Delwin D Fandrich pianobuilders@olynet.com
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:04:17 -0700



harvey wrote:

> Del, I too attended this presentation, and other than a Three Stooges
> sampling, what you quoted was what I carried away from that presentation.
> My recall is something like "the acoustic piano will be obsolete by 1991."
> I was in a rather warm and very crowded booth at a NAMM show. Could you
> have been there at the same time?
>
> Regardless, I've used the reference several times when forced to make
> analogies between "traditional" and, ah, "contemporary" instruments.

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Could well be.  It was both warm -- even warmer after some of the statements
bandied about -- and crowded.

They also demonstrated a synthesized version of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  I
wondered if they were going to make that obsolete as well . . . .

Del



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