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I 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 t
by holri 13y ago
I 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.
- holri 13y agoHave you ever played a Bösendorfer Imperial?
- bane 13y agoYes. I can do you one better, I've even played the piano discussed here http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/international/europe/03RUSS.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/international/europe/03RUS...
- holri 13y agoIf you can not understand the difference between these instruments and a for example a Kawai MP10 than any discussion is meaningless.
- bane 13y agoI've also played wooden spoons, a TB-303, TR-808, TR-909, Classical Violin, Appalachian fiddle, Classical Cello, Classical Piano, Piano Moderne, Three kinds of Organ, Several Synths, Tracker, Marimba, Xylophone, 북, 장고, Kazoo, Slide Whistle, Pot and Pan, 5-gallon drum, Hang, Recorder (modern and classical), flute, penny whistle, Appalachian dulcimer, Hammered Dulcimer, 꽹과리, 자바라, and on and on and on. I'm not even uniquely qualified to comment on this because music is a universe, not a spectrum. If you can't create beautiful, soulful, music on a Kawai MP10, or even a bag or sand, then I question your authority on music. You rely on expensive instruments as crutches to fill in your musicality, when you need to develop your own. Start with simple instruments and when you can put soul into a pair of wooden spoons then you can move on to more expressive instruments. Somebody who can't perform with soul on a Kawai MP10, then any discussion is more than meaningless because you've limited soulful musicality to such a tiny fraction of music and instruments in the world that you definition is effectively useless.