This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks Don. It is very difficult to keep up with the competition instruments just = reading the hype. Jim James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups (314) 608-4137 WWW.JamesGrebe.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Don Mannino=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:19 PM Subject: Re: digital? James, The newest digital pianos do pedal resonances and even allow ghosting = of notes (holding some silently and playing others to excite harmonics = on the silent notes). I know that the high end Kawai CA series has both = of these features, and I believe some of the Yamaha models do as well. The Kawai models also have variable tone quality on each note based on = velocity - something akin to hammers sounding mellow when played soft, = and have more brightness and bite when played hard. In addition, there = is a featured called the "virtual technician" which allows fine = adjustment to the tone quality and tuning type. As a pianist, though, there is never any doubt about whether they are = as satisfying to play as a real piano. There still is no comparison. Don Mannino RPT=20 At 04:47 PM 12/25/2004, you wrote: I have always said that we know when the digital is a real contender = if classical musicians give concerts on them rather than a Steinway "D". = My own test is when the sustain pedal is used, does the piano sustain = just the notes that have been played or does it give add convincing = sound that the dampers have lifted on all the strings to give there = comunilative effect. Jim James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups (314) 608-4137 WWW.JamesGrebe.com 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! pianoman@accessus.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: St=E9phane Collin=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 6:39 PM Subject: Re: Year End Hi Alan ! You rise an interesting strange point here, when saying that you = can only play a digital piano for about half an hour. I feel exactly = the same. Even though the synthetic thing gets closer and closer to the = real thing, one's intuition still can clearly (very clearly) make the = difference between them, and the synthetic is still boring and makes the = listener tired. Makes me think of fake light (spots etc) versus day = light. Same scenario. Your eyes never get tired of daylight. What is = amazing me is that the real thing is always much more complex than the = fake one. How comes that a more complex thing gives us more rest than a = more simple one ? St=E9phane Collin ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan Forsyth=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 12:12 AM Subject: Re: Year End I also tell them that they will soon become tired of the sound = of a digital piano (at least I do) "listener fatigue" and all that. I = can only play a digital piano for about half an hour and have to switch = it off.=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3b/04/ce/0b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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