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Topic: Hardware catching up with software...

Saw this in the news today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2...ical-music

Someone has built a piano that lets the player tweak the tuning easily by hand!

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Re: Hardware catching up with software...

Sweet. (What are those two Persian tunings she mentions?)

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Very innovative. If Pianoteq is forth generation, is this a fifth generation piano? I wonder how long it will hold its tuning. Would it be easy to play the same tune twice?:) and

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Re: Hardware catching up with software...

DonSmith wrote:

If Pianoteq is fourth generation, is this a fifth generation piano?

Nope, more like generation 3.5 -- ironic, huh?  ;^)

Seriously, it's an improvement to the already-existing 3rd-generation piano instrument, not a truly "new" instrument by any means. 

I wish they would have cut the "extra sounds" from the video -- the demonstration certainly didn't need them!

"Our developers, who art in Toulouse, hallowed be thy physical-models.
Thy version 4 come, thy new instruments be done, in the computer as it is in the wood!"