[LAU] looking for midi piano keyboard with "natural" piano touch

[David Kastrup]

Tim Goetze <tim-dbTVWpLIJp6zQB+pC5nmwQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> [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.

Playing (button) accordion here.  My experience with digital ones is
that the dynamic reaction (in this case to bellows pressure rather than
key velocity) is both too little and too much.  There is too much focus
on a change in _volume_ rather than sound quality.  It does not feel
like the "expressivity" of a high quality instrument rather than a
pretty finicky volume control.

-- 
David Kastrup