<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">Nice features, but many software companies concentrate so much on trying to capture the extraneous noises a piano makes at the expense of  getting a real piano sound. It's still too much to ask of hardware or software to close one's eyes and have it sound like one is sitting in front of a piano. <br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message----- <br>From: Peter Downs <peter.downs@gmail.com> <br>Sent: May 8, 2008 5:01 PM <br>To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org> <br>Subject: Re: New computer software <br><br>For the Pianotuners piano go to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pianoteq.com/">http://www.pianoteq.com/</a><br><br> </pianotech@ptg.org></peter.downs@gmail.com><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Matthew Todd <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">toddpianoworks@att.net</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Those Steinway demos are much more musical than the disklaviers and the like.</div> <div> </div> <div>Matthew <div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><b><i>Kent Swafford <<a href="mailto:kswafford@gmail.com" target="_blank">kswafford@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div></div> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c"> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">Behold the Authorized Steinway Virtual Concert Grand: <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/673gzu" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/673gzu</a></span></div> <div><br></div> <div><a href="http://garritan.com/steinway_demos.html" target="_blank">http://garritan.com/steinway_demos.html</a></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div></blockquote><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br> </blockquote></body>