At 05:04 PM 2/25/97 -0600, you wrote: > > Anyone have any experience with long-term use of digital pianos in >colleges, etc. I'm looking to decrease the number of pianos requiring >tuning here and wonder how digitals would hold up in TA studios over the >long haul. Thanks for any info. John, There's a good "Consumer Report"-type magazine called "Digital Piano Buyer's Guide" available from some dealers. It's worth getting. (510)653-3307 is the phone for the circulation dept. at "Electronic Musician", the publisher. Tell 'em you're a school and they likely give it to you free. The life-span of a digital is NOTHING like that of an acoustic, and can't really be compared, investment-wise, over the long haul. ALSO, even though I sell them, you can't develop the same interactive feedback loop with a digital that you can with a real piano. In other words, the quality of the brain food is less, and the student suffers. Now this is not to say that digitals don't have a value. It's just less. Digitals are good tools, and combined with computers, the possibilities are endless. It's a tough call, but based on money, the answer is to remain acoustic. By the way, when looking at digitals, don't listen to anybody but yourself, AFTER you've really played them ALL. Fair is fair. Guy Nichols, RPT, chapter 799 nicho@lascruces.com can you say "NO help"? sorry if your time was wasted with this post
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