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

[mccleskey112 at bellsouth.net]

Yes. I can testify to that on a number of occasions. The best one is about a 
customer that I had tuned for a number of times because her daughter was 
taking lessons. The piano was a not so good spinet. She missed calling for 
about 3 years and then she called to have her piano tuned again. This time I 
noticed that she had an expensive keyboard across the room from the not so 
good spinet. After I finished tuning and she was writing the check, she 
commented about the keyboard, saying "I guess you are wondering why I havf 
you tuning this piano when I have that expensive keyboard?" I affirmed that, 
and she said. " I heard my daughter playing the spinet the other day and I 
asked her why she was playing that out of tune piano when she had a nice 
keyboard to play, and she told me that she would rather play the piano." 
There are other's but that one is the best. Take heart guys, the piano will 
be around for a while yet. Yes. Probably for a long while. IMHO
Gerald McCleskey RPT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fenton Murray" <fmurray at cruzio.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: What did I tell you ?? The end is nearer then you think.


>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:
>>
>>> 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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