future of the acoustic piano

[Daniel Lindholm]

As a pianist and a freetime hobby musicmaker (working with electronic music)
I can just say this:
If we havent been able to reproduce the analouge sound from analouge
synthesizers with digital equipment, I honestly doubt that either you or me
will get to see a piano that can beat the old classic piano (in its current
shape) or even simulate it good enough to satisfy serious pianists.

Some say today that they dont care wether its digital or a real piano, but
if you ask a serious pianist (read classical pianist) he/she would probably
laugh at the idea of playing on a digital piano.

Digital pianos is rather good today, to be honest. But the idea of trading
my steinway b for a digital piano is just crazy in my oppinion.

As someone mentioned on this list before, it could be a good start though.
Especially for those who live in an apartment and have picky neighbours. Its
not a question about money, since a digital piano is way more expensive than
an upright that is even alot better when it comes to touch and sound (a used
upright that is). Those digital pianos with real grand piano action is kind
of neat however.

But we will see. I havent looked into how the bigger pianofactories are
doing (perhaps someone could give an answer to this?)

I agree that the digital piano is taking bigger and bigger share of the
pianoindustry. This is a very interesting topic and hopefully we will see
some really neat stuff in the future.

Excuse me if I sound rude or anything. English isnt my main language and
this post isnt directed to someone specific. Its hard for me to express
myself in the way I want (getting the grammar together and finding the
correct words). This is just my thought upon the subject.

/Daniel Lindholm Stockholm / Sweden