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

[Fenton Murray]

I agree, Paul. I have a few keyboards and love them all, but, they have 
quite a different place in music than a piano. With today's young people's 
attention on all things computer and video, I think the keyboard will be 
able to grab their attention while the dusty old piano will not, and for 
those that then have the passion you will not be able to keep them from the 
piano.
Fenton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andersen" <david at davidandersenpianos.com>
To: <pmc033 at earthlink.net>; "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.


> Bingo. Agree 100%.
> DA
>
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Paul McCloud wrote:
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>> 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
>> Service Technician for PianoSD.com
>> www.pianoservsd.com
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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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