Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
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> 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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