<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I don’t have a problem with digital pianos, electric guitars, or synthesized instruments or what they are called.  In all honesty, I’d rather play one of those than a wiry, sounds-like-hitting-the-side-of-a-garbage-can piece of you know what.  As you say, they have their place and I don’t think you need to worry about them taking the place of quality acoustic instruments.  For those with space problems, portability considerations, limited budgets, sound issues (i.e. noise sensitive apartment dwelling neighbors), for those who use them to interface with computers for composition, like the gadgets and toys and variety of sounds, they can be fun.  So why shouldn’t they call them digital pianos?  The better ones use sampled and digitized sound from real pianos.  What else should they call them?  <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com </div> -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Lacovara Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:20 PM To: pianotech Subject:   <div>   The ultimate insult?   “Digital Pianos”   A simple question: am I the only one who is deeply offended by the terminology “digital piano”.   I dare suggest that I am not the only Guild member (associate in my case) that finds it appalling that certain well known manufacturers of acoustical instruments have described their offerings of electronic devices that mimic acoustical instruments as pianos.   Let it be known, as obvious as it is, that these are NOT pianos. The very companies whose acoustical  instruments  we regularly service are, simply, helping to put us out of business.   There is clearly a place for digital instruments. The capabilities of some are simply breathtaking.  Many of us, including myself, own one. But they are NOT pianos.   I believe that the acoustical piano developed over the past two hundred years is one of the miraculous inventions that humans ever conceived. No death, no maiming, simple love, joy and excitement.   Would we not be well justified in asking these manufacturers of cease using the term Piano?       </div> <div> LORENZO LACOVARA </div> <div>   </div> <div> The Piano Exchange BUY  SELL  TUNING  REPAIRS Hoffman Town Square 2225 Wyoming NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 </div> <div>   </div> <div> (505) 710-9643 </div> </div> </body> </html>