It all depends of what you want to learn and what you like to hear: whatever sailsmen are truying to tell you: the sound of a digital^piano is never and wan't ever be the same as the sound of a "classical" piano. A digital piano produces the sound of a sampled piano. Whatever touchweight and feeling of playing may be: it never equals the way of mechanical playing of a calssical piano. In a digital piano you have electronic contacts, i.e. there is contact or none. You can't control the way of producing the sound, with a normal grand it is very good possible due to the echappement. All this doesn't mean there no good electronic piano's, not at all. But when you prefer the sound of a classical piano above this of a digital piano, you have to know the advantages of a cassical piano but also the desadvantages, i. e. tuning and regulating or in an other way normal costs for keeping a good piano in a good way. When you don't wan't this tuniong and regulating, buy a digital piano but know also the (des)advantages. Peter Kestens KESTENS.P@DEBCOM.BE BELGIUM > Van: DGPEAKE <DGPEAKE@aol.com> > Aan: pianotech@ptg.org > Onderwerp: Re: Learn piano > Datum: mardi 21 avril 1998 3:44 > > In a message dated 98-04-19 15:23:30 EDT, you write: > > << > Hi! > I'm from Argentina so sorry for my bad english. > I play piano and I have a digital piano (Roland-RD500). I've been > learning piano since 1995. I began with a acoustic piano (only the first > year because it was crashed). > The question is: Can I learn to play piano with my digital piano? > > Thanks!!! > > >> > You can learn the basic fingering and scales from a digital piano. But it > will not replace the escapement that an acoustic piano has. Sound from a > digital is produced electronically. Sound from an acoustic piano is produced > mechanically. > > Also it is a matter of investment. What will the digital piano be worth after > you own it a year? Technology such as computers changes an average of every > 18 months. Pianos do not. They will retain the investment much better. > > Food for thought. > > Dave Peake, RPT > Portland, OR
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