<!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 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px; FONT: 12pt Arial Narrow; MARGIN-LEFT: = 2px"> <DIV>Until last year, Yamaha did make a piano as you described.</DIV> <DIV>The GranTouch (GT) series had conventional grand actions that hit a = rebound bar instead of strings.  The actions had sensors that would detect = hammer velocity and transmit that information to both a 30MB piano sample of = a CFIIIS or to the MIDI out port as conventional MIDI data. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mark Wisner Yamaha Corporation <A href="mailto:mwisner@yamaha.com">mwisner@yamaha.com</A> >&g= t;> remoody@midstatesd.net 12/10/02 05:24PM >>> > = Purely subjectivley I would say that the midi+sample solution sounds better = > than most Ł1000 pianos. I wonder if you can get keyboards that have = a "real" > action - that is a major drawback IMO. > > Regards, > > Nathan My sentiments exactly.  I = can't believe a super Corp.  like Yamaha has not done this, offered one = of their "real piano actions" as a midi work station. Even if they used = the action from the CP 80  they would have much more by far than what = is being offered.  The Suzuki ads show a feeble attempt.  I = "touched" a suzuki and it felt like another genera of so called "weighted keyboards".   I wonder what the price is. A piano action = cannot cost more than 3,000.  You don't need the dampers.   I = have dropped hints to Ron O and now I am going to work on Roger J. <BR= >If the big companies aren't going to do it then it will take an indivudual = with start up capital to  order 1000 grand actions from an __________ = producer figure out the strike pads, wire it up and start selling.   But I can't believe Baldwin, Kawai, or Yamaha = not doing this themselves given their past with electronic keyboards.     We can only gain from this because it = will take a piano tuner to regulate it.    ----ric _______________________________________________ piano= tech list info: <A href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org/m= ailman/listinfo/pianotech</A> </DIV></BODY></HTML>