David Love questioned the validity of keyboards vs a clunker piano. My response is this: Pianos touch and sound can be fixed/altered/repaired. A piano promotes Muscle Tone and a weighted Keyboard does not. Teachers found this out, early on, with the keyboards. At first they were promoting the idea, as a Tuner was not needed and ....all the pluses of the keyboards. They quickly found out about the muscle tone thingee, because their students were not progressing at the same rate as before with a piano. Don't get me wrong. I am not opposed to the Electronic Keyboards. They have a very good place in the making of music. They are the best thing since Peanutbutter, when it comes to gigging, etc. I often will suggest that an Electronic Keyboard be placed at right angles to the piano, (bass end), when puberty hits a student and interest wanes. All the electronic stuff will help to keep that student interested, IMHO. Just quit calling the damned things Pianos!! Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100216/5d5077b1/attachment.htm>
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