At 04:00 PM 11/15/97 -0500, you wrote: ><snip> I had a long discussion (almost an argument) with the dealer >about calling the Clavinova a piano. Why do they call it a piano when it >could just as well be called an organ? It's really closer to an organ >because of all the stops, bells, and whistles, But they call them pianos! ><snip> >Ted Simmons, Merritt Island, FL To me, truer words have never been spoken. piano: Touch. The feel of the mechanism engaging and delivering your command. Expression. The wafting harmonics producing expanding vibrations. Emotion. Sensory interpretation. Ok, Ok so it's in tune and not a spinet. But you get the picture. =Music el-piano: Touch. No mechanism. Organ technique = Assimilation. Sounds similar to. . . and with sufficient indoctrination, will approximate a recorded version of same. Expression. Volume control. Depends on speaker placement. Emotion. Volume control, speaker placement and sobriety. Totally Tubular =Musak This was a subject on r.m.m.p. a while ago. But I think there where too many 'dealers' of these; electros outnumbered the pianos. "Like, I can play it at three in the morning with the headphones, man; and not wake everyone up" Cool, Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
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