[Noisebridge-discuss] Getting a piano for NB

[Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson]

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On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:06 PM, davidfine wrote:
> Please don't put an upright piano at noise bridge. I don't want to  
> hear
> you practice, and it's not really considerate to people who want to  
> get
> work done at noisebridge.  Get a keyboard with headphones. Yamaha  
> makes
> some with very nice keyboard response for $700 and under. Or get one
> with less than perfect tactile response, whatever.
> --D
>


While "Please don't put music instruments at Noisebridge because I  
don't want to hear music" is a perfectly valid opinion to have, the  
reason so many of us are drooling our heads off over the idea of  
getting hold of a Real Piano is precisely that the $700 Yamaha with  
nice keyboard response, not to mention the "less than perfect tactile  
response" are increasingly horrible to play the better you are at  
playing.

I own a less-than-perfect. I ended up not touching it for years, and  
then parking it with my mother because the less-than-perfect made  
playing it less-than-pleasant.

Uncanny valley is at work with piano playing, it really is.


Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat
Postdoctoral researcher
mik at math.stanford.edu






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