What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.

[Paul McCloud]

Hi, George:
	Well, the digital instruments aren't just another "sine wave" generator. 
The sounds are "sampled" (recorded) from actual instruments, so they sound
much more realistic than the old synthesizers.  Big difference.
	But anyway, I agree with you.  There is little longevity with the keyboard
instruments (if you can call them instruments).  In a year, they aren't
worth half of the purchase price.  In ten years, they'll be unwanted junk,
ready for the thrift store.  Good for marketers.  I call keyboards a
stepping stone to a piano.  Next thing they'll buy is a piano.  I'm  not
threatened at all by them.  No speaker system in the world has been able to
reproduce the complex sound of a piano, and unless something
earthshattering comes along, that fact is the limiting factor.  But, let
them build keyboards all day long.  Show me someone learning to play one,
and I'll show you a budding piano player.  Nothing compares to the real
acoustic sound and feel of a piano.
	FWIW,
	Paul McCloud

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> [Original Message]
> From: <mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 04/06/2008 11:04:23 AM
> Subject: Re: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.
>
> Hey Guys: I would like to share, with you, something out of the past
about 
> electronic keyboards. These instruments were made by companies such as 
> Hammond, Baldwin, Gulbransen, ant others. They were using the new
technology 
> called transistors and they were burning up the keyboard industry. If you 
> haven't guessed by now. They were called spinet organs. Yes sir. You
could 
> play the melody with one hand and it would play the whole chord for you.
It 
> would play an accompaniment that you could play along with. You could 
> program the rhythm section and play along with it. You could make it
sound 
> like a trumpet, saxophone, banjo, or of all things a piano. Imagine that. 
> Well what happened to this business? Some of you will rember that around 
> 1983 this industry vanished. The dealer that I was servicing for at the 
> time, had a floor full of spinet organs and all of sudden nobody was
buying 
> them. Are digital keyboard any different than transistor keyboards? Well, 
> they have more gadgets and have a full keyboard but they have the same
basic 
> sound source, and that is the sine wave, which is the same smoothe sound 
> that you get from a flute. Will they succeed where the spinet organ
failed? 
> Only time will tell. But don't be suprised if one day soon no body wants
a 
> digital keyboard. Just a thought!
> Gerald McCleskey
> Shreveport, LA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
> To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:46 AM
> Subject: RE: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.
>
>
> > Expressive, controllable, dynamic range, balanced, enjoyable to
play!?!?!?
> > That's outrageous!
> >
> > David Love
> > davidlovepianos at comcast.net
> > www.davidlovepianos.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
> > Behalf
> > Of Ron Nossaman
> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:31 AM
> > To: Pianotech List
> > Subject: Re: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.
> >
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >>         I am an appreciator...and there is NOTHING like real piano!
> >>
> >> Julia
> >
> > Right, whatever a "real" piano is, and if you can find one. I
> > just got another rebuild inquiry from someone wanting a real
> > instrument that isn't as THIN and BRIGHT and LOUD and SHINY as
> > possible like everything he hears in the showrooms. He wants
> > something expressive and controllable instead, with a real
> > dynamic range that's actually enjoyable to play. I think maybe
> > I can help. I'm making him up an estimate right now.
> > Ron N
> >
> > 
>