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

[mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net]

Paul: I remember listening to a Yamaha demo of their keyboard and it was a 
recording of a piano that was playing. But when they switched to the actual 
keyboard there was a vast difference in the sound that the keyboard was 
producing as opposed to the recording. I wonder if this is the sampled sound 
that are referring to. Something has to produce the signal and I am pretty 
sure that it isn't a recording. Any Ideas?
Gerald McCleskey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul McCloud" <pmc033 at earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.


> 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
>
> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
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