A was looking into digital pianos recently to see how far along the technology has come. The extent to which they go to try to capture the nuances of a real pi

A was looking into digital pianos recently to see how far along the technology has come. The extent to which they go to try to capture the nuances of a real piano took me by surprise. You know how when you depress the pedal on a piano (without playing) the dampers lifting from the strings causes them to quietly ring a little bit? They model that now. You know how if you quietly depress a key to keep a single damper open, and then loudly strike a staccato note in the bass, how the first note resonates with some harmonics from the bass note? They're modeling that now too. They used to try to save memory by not sampling the entire decay of a note (after some amount of decay, they would start looping a brief sample, playing it little quieter each iteration). Now they sample the entire decay, because memory is cheap enough. Here are some videos of the one that caught my eye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVf-fwCRSE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVf-fwCRSE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77nDTIWkeA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77nDTIWkeA I'm tempted to go try to play some. It would be very nice to not have to pay for periodic tunings.