On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:56:50 -0500, BAR wrote:

Boater wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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It's very nice, but it doesn't sound like a "regular" non-electronic
piano to me. Have you had a chance to mess with a CEUS?


As I tried to explain to you, it *won't* sound like a "regular"
non-electric piano to you because you are playing it on a computer,
using a computer sound module or board to produce the sound of a
piano. It can only sound as good as the type of sound board you have
and the speakers you hear it through.

When played on a real, "regular" non-electric piano, like the QSR
equipped one that we have, it sounds like a real, "regular"
non-electric, grand piano. Because it is. The piano produces the
sound, not electronics.

It's hard to explain.

What's a CEUS?

Eisboch



Sorry. CEUS is the computer grand piano made by Bosendorfer.

From www.bosendorfer.com:

What do you get out of it?

• At the moment, CEUS is the only computer controlled grand piano
world-wide capable of emotionally authentic recording and reproduction
of piano pieces, all that with an exceedingly higher accuracy than
comparable systems.

• CEUS is the perfect practice instrument for professional pianists, as
it enables the pianists to listen to their own performance from an
audience’s perspective. Interpretation and performance skills can thus
be minutely monitored and refined.

• CEUS ensures recordings without any of the sound distortions
introduced by conventional audio systems (microphones, amplifiers,
speakers). Live-recordings from the concert hall are now able to be
realised with this instrument excluding the disturbing noises associated
with live performances.

• CD production recordings can be made and edited on your own
instrument. CD production can be continued in any sound studio equipped
with a CEUS system at any given time.

• CEUS is your partner of choice for long distance music production.
If you would like to play four-handed but you have only got two hands?
CEUS will be at your disposal.

• You already own a Bösendorfer grand and now you prefer a computer
controlled grand? CEUS can be built into all Bösendorfer grand pianos
(models 170 to 290). But don’t worry: the amazing Bösendorfer sound will
remain unchanged even after a customized fitting.
CEUS will work magic

You might perhaps feel like having someone else play for you and conjure
up the music of renowned pianists in your own living room. We will
compile for you a collection of select piano pieces. At one touch of the
remote control CEUS will work magic. Invisible hands will bring your
favourite music – recorded at the Vienna Musikverein – into your home.
Your friends will be amazed.

You are an Internet genius Harry. If you didn't have the Internet you
would be a catalog genius.

He keeps his Bösendorfer grand in his barn. Protected.
--
John