<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#008000>I agree with Graeme on most of this.  = The digital pianos cannot and do not (yet) provide this "mixing" that happens on the = piano soundboard either with or without the sustain pedal played.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#008000>Digital pianos are recordings of a particular = piano and the player is actually playing a recording in real time.  Young = people have grown up listening to recordings and very few, if any, real = pianos.  Although I'm convinced that once given the opportunity to play a fine = piano (not the out-of-tune spinet in most homes) they wouldn't want to go back to digital.  Kinda-like real home-made ice cream versus ice-milk sold = at dairy bars.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#008000>My church's sound man has no idea what the = real Baldwin "L" I keep in good tune (and used to voice) sounds like or should sound like.  He has an excellent condenser microphone on it but "tweaks" = the sound into a thin sound similar to a Winter spinet piano.  I've = given up voicing it - he just changes his settings to adjust.  If and/or = when I play the piano I unplug the microphone - without the sound man's = knowledge.  He's never commented on it.  The piano has plenty of projection to = fill the 1000 seat sanctuary.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#008000>Del Gittinger, RPT<BR>Del's Music Studio, = Marion, OH<BR>Piano Tuning & Service<BR>Electronic Instrument repairs = including organs<BR><A href="mailto:delgit@acc-net.com">delgit@acc-net.com</A></FONT></DIV></B= ODY></HTML>