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So does that mean that piano music played on an insufficiently fancy piano is soulless as well?
by tesseractive 13y ago
So does that mean that piano music played on an insufficiently fancy piano is soulless as well?
- holri 13y agoI have a Kawai MP10 digital Piano and an old hand made analog Hofmann piano. If I play for example just the last Chord (6 Notes) of Chopin Prelude op. 28/4 on the Hofmann the music goes deep through every nerve. Nothing comparable happens on the Kawai even with very good speakers.
- tesseractive 13y agoAre you saying that those 2 data points constitute a spanning set of the possibilities?
- holri 13y agoDo you understand the concept of a example?
- yongjik 13y agoThat's what people who buy monster ethernet cables say.
- bane 13y agoBad musicians frequently blame the instruments.
- holri 13y agoYou mean good musicians do not distinguish good and bad instruments?
- bane 13y agoA good musician can play world class music on a rusty spoon, a used pie plate and a one-string-out-of-tune-$20-guitar. Crap musicians are those that rely on fancy instruments to make up for their lack of basic musicianship. Even a drunk martini bar pianist can sound halfway decent on a $70k Steinway or Bösendorfer.
- holri 13y agoI do not doubt that. But to return to the original point, a good instrument has a soul, as a good musician has. My digital-Kawai does not have one, my analog Hofmann has. My musical skills have nothing to do with that.
- bane 13y agoThe nature of the instrument doesn't dictate its soul. A digital piano was made with just as much care and soul as a regular old piano. Even instruments with very limited expressiveness are no less important. Yanni regularly brings listeners to tears and he plays as much on a synth as he does on a traditional piano. "Soulfulness" didn't stop with the digital revolution. You're simply no sophisticated enough to perceive it. Even instruments like a tb303 have brought deep meaning, and communicated emotional soulful intention, to millions. Your emotional range is just too narrow to feel it. Blame yourself not the instruments.