I agree Dan, the problem is nobody or shall I say the average doesn't know the difference between acoustic and electric piano sound. It's no different than the person who knows the difference between a Winter spinet and a Steinway grand. Yes in m;y last sentence I stretched it, but you know what I mean. Unless you can convince the average Joe that one is better, nothing will change. All they're interested in is the price. Lynn Rosenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Hallett Jr. <dhalle@toolcity.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:11 PM Subject: Acoutic VS Electric Pianos > Piano Industry > > Lynn Rosenberg wrote: > > > Hi John, I don't have a problem with kids using key boards, it's > fascinating > > for them. Bells and whistles, midi, etc. It will encourage music, but, if > > the next generation or shall I say this generation gets all wrapped up in > > these electronic devices, sales of the Acoustic piano will continue to go > > down, and more companies will close they're doors. Lynn > > > > > > Well, thats going to happen anyways. Each year they get better and better > reproducing the sound of an acoustic piano. Sooner or later it will be good > enough to overcome enough of the remaining reasons for buying an acoustic > piano > that folks will start buying these instead. And I mean big time. I would > think > that it would hit the low end of the acoustic market most, but who knows. > > Another danger with all this is that at some point there will not be enough > market to support the industry as a whole, and when that happens the > knowledge > base will begin to suffer. Then you have an evil circle started which is > going > to be hard to fight against. > > - -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > > I have both an electric and acoustic instrument. The electric was used > exclusively this summer. At the end of the summer, I couldn't wait to get > back to the acoustic instrument. The electric instrumentt's sound came at > you...the acoustic's enveloped you. There was absolutely NO comparison. > > Dan Hallett, RPT > >
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