On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:24:22 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
 wrote:

>
>"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message 
>news:4fd500b203dave@davenoise.co.uk...
<snip>
>> Anyone who has ever worked in a recording studio would be delighted to be
>> able to get shot of the real piano. They take up a lot of room and cost a
>> deal to tune and maintain. But like all instruments they will never be
>> replaced by a synthesizer or sampler - except where the type of music
>> calls for that specific sound. Ie, the cheap to make sort.
>
>I'm not sure that we should say 'never'. I just hope it's not in my 
>lifetime.
>
Funny that - that's pretty much what was said of the first pianos in
the early 18th century. It wasn't until the 1760s that the concept
gained any real sort of acceptance.

Regards,



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