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> Most of even the top of the line digital pianos seem to get the resonances and cross-talk between the strings wrong in my opinion I agree. A well-maintained,

> Most of even the top of the line digital pianos seem to get the resonances and cross-talk between the strings wrong in my opinion I agree. A well-maintained, in-tune acoustic piano, especially a grand, has a richness of tone that digital pianos cannot match. The main problem with digital seems to be the resonance between the strings, which has apparently been difficult to model well. Your neural-net suggestion might work better. Decent digital pianos, though, are superior to mediocre acoustic pianos, which can be unpleasant to play or listen to. They also require little or no maintenance and can be played with headphones, a definite advantage for many living situations.

dheera 6y ago
Yep. I'd be happy if I can make my digital sound as good as a YouTube recording of a concert grand, which obviously isn't as good as a real piano in richness and spatial feeling but the the quality of the resonances is there in the recording. I have a Kawai CA48 which is pretty good for digital but it still falls short of what I hear on YouTube recordings of Bosendorfers or Steinways playing through the same speakers, and I think that's a good neural net synthesis problem to match the sound indistinguishably to the quality of those recordings.