5/20/2004: Roll-up portable piano

[smoothmoniker]

Originally posted by Tomas Rueda


in actual pianos, you can feel the resistance of the entire mechanism.

in keyboard, you either feel: 1-a simple spring or 2- composite springs that aid in tone quality (the harder you press, the louder the sound.)

in that keyboard I imagine you don't feel a thing (have any of you imagined to play the piano in a table?)

several companies are now making keyboards with a full hammer action inside. It's still not a piano, but it's close enough that I feel comfortable playing classical and straight-ahead jazz on them (always the most difficult things to do when the action is off).

I don't think the market for this is for "players" - but what a great instructional tool! Can you imaging being able to do 45 minutes of music instruction with elementary school kids, and have them take their "pianos" out of their desks and roll them out, then put them away when you're done? or, when you grow up with 5 pianists in the same house, as I did, being able to write music tucked away in a closet somewhere when it's not your turn to use the real piano.

-sm