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No, it can't be mechanical. The interconnection between the key hammers and the strings is THE defining sound of the piano. It is a direct mechanical linkage. I
by freeone3000 6y ago
No, it can't be mechanical. The interconnection between the key hammers and the strings is THE defining sound of the piano. It is a direct mechanical linkage. If you change this, it is a different instrument, and cannot sound the same.
If it's digital, well, why bother with the soundbox at all, and simply have an electronic keyboard entirely?
- mrob 6y agoThere is no direct mechanical linkage between the keys and the strings. The piano action sets the hammer moving, and then it flies through the air uncontrolled until it bounces off the string. The only control the player has is how fast they start it moving, and there's no reason you couldn't do this with a solenoid (although it would have to be a fast one to match the latency of the mechanical action).
- siltpotato 6y agoThat sounds too expensive for a problem that could more easily solved by switching to a different instrument, like a button accordion. I know a longtime jazz guitar player who recently switched to something radically different, a clarinet, just because arthritis has been catching up to him.