Mark Brown talks to Geoff Smith, whose reinvention of the piano allows players to alter the tuning of notes either before or during a performance.
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I would like to have one , but It annoys me that he makes such a thing out of it being analogue and not digital. who gives a shit , i bet he could have made something cheaper and with far more function that was digital and allowed far more tuning options.

now I like it as a mechanical device and non digital things can be interesting to look at for example i like babages computers with all there visual moving parts and some of the steem punk contraptions out there are just plain interesting to look at and in general mechanical things r cool.

However If you are making a tool , which in this case this really is it makes sence to make the most efficient tool posssable so that you can then create what you want to create in the easiest fashion.

If he was making this as a peace of art as much as a tool then he visually could have made something far more striking or interesting to look at.



Allso whats stupid is how he says it opens up opertunties well synths have done that for years , its as if this guys mind is stuck in the past.

It would be like me building a Horse drawn cart out of ultra modern equipment. ( although that would actually be cool )

I like that this piano exists and sum one built it , i just done like his attitude and his motivations.

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