future of the acoustic piano

[Stephen Airy]

I'm a serious Christian piano player (I mainly like
the old songs, and some of the newer non-rock
Christian songs).  I like acoustic pianos for
performing and playing at home, and digitals, like the
Yamaha PSRs or CVPs (my favorites so far) are good for
fooling around, and sometimes for playing at home or
in an informal setting.  (IMHO)


--- Daniel Lindholm <lindholm.daniel@home.se> wrote:
> 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
> 


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