Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > To an audience with mostly deaf ears, I'm afraid. You got that right!!, Rock music, Jets, Commuter Planes, Trains, Cars, 88% Urban Population, a whole generation of pianists raised in loud practice rooms-----The generation is deaf! The computer won't ever duplicate the piano. Is it Conklin from Baldwin that demonstrated the sand pattern designs formed when a soundboard vibrates at various frequencies? A440 makes a certain pattern, C 523 makes another. Put the two together and a whole new pattern exists. Vary the dynamics, and it changes more. Play a big arpeggio with the pedal down, and try and predict the pattern! The patterns aren't just the sum of notes played together but a hopelessly unpredictable complex mess. The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration can't computer generate exact wave sizes and patterns which will exist on the sea for a certain wind, often they aren't even close. Forget trying to duplicate the tonal response of a soundboard. -Mike Jorgensen
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