<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>no no Gerald,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We want good piano sounds on keyboards, that's the whole idea. Nobody is trying to get rid of the piano or try to pretend that they are one. It's just really cool to put one in the back of a VW and go out and play anywhere you want. The fact that they can't fool Kent Swafford isn't the point, nobody's trying to fool anybody. Smaller, lighter, better, that's what we want, keep at it Roland, Kurtzweil, Yamaha, Korg, ect.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mccleskey112@bellsouth.net href="mailto:mccleskey112@bellsouth.net">mccleskey112@bellsouth.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:38 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: New computer software</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You know, it is amazing to me that the keyboard industry would spent so much time and energy trying to sound like a piano when we already have pianos. Ditto all the other sound that they are trying to ape. It looks like, to me, that it would be in their interest to invent new sounds that aren't already in use. Sounds that other instruments can't produce. Get outside of the box and work on something new and useful. Any thoughts?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gerald McCleskey RPT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kswafford@gmail.com href="mailto:kswafford@gmail.com">Kent Swafford</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:22 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: New computer software</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Doesn't sound like a piano to <I>this</I> piano tuner.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Kent</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On May 8, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Peter Downs wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">For the Pianotuners piano go to <A href="http://www.pianoteq.com/">http://www.pianoteq.com/</A><BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Matthew Todd <<A href="mailto:toddpianoworks@att.net">toddpianoworks@att.net</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <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="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>