[Cedric Roux] >I'm looking for people playing classic music >(Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, this kind of things). >If you fit, what do you think about midi master >keyboards? Do you use one of them to practice >your piano? And does it "feel" like the real >thing? Do you use it with joy, like "mmm, what to play >today? the piano or the midi keyboard?" I have practiced a couple of piano pieces from these composers for two to three hours a day for a while both on a Motif ES8 (Yamaha standard weighted hammer keyboard) and a Bechstein upright (plus two or three stints on a Hamburg Steinway grand) and I can tell you it's possible to play this stuff on any keyboard, but there's no way your output on a cheap keyboard will be anywhere near the smoothness, fluency and consistency you'll achieve on proper piano keys. I have yet to find a digital piano setup that can fully recreate the close connection a piano gives you to the music, and I'm not sure it's even attainable with what the market offers at this time. It's not a major problem though, the brain is quite good at bridging this gap. As for the joy thing (my apologies for going out on a tangent), whatever instrument I end up playing, if I don't enjoy it, I've found it better not to play at all. Practice without joy will form a habit of joyless performing. Cheers, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
