[sdiy] Other resonator designs

[JH.]

>It's certainly interesting territory.  This may be anathema to sdiy types, but this sort of thing can be much more deeply explored 
>in software.  I have found some >piano soundboard, violin, viola, etc. impulse responses and I think that these (as well as FFT 
>equalizers) can give a more intense and interesting (to me) effect than >the sort of stuff that's easily achieved in the analog 
>domain.  Of course, I'm only speaking of fixed formant filters; I'm not discounting other applications of filter >banks and 
>multiple voltage controlled bandpass filters.

It's very interesting what can be done in software (or in digital hardware) today.
I think about spending a considerable amount of money for a piano, probably an Essex EUP-123E 
(http://www.steinway.de/instrumente/essex/klaviere.html) which is designed by Steinway and sounds *phantastic* for an upright piano 
in that price range. But then again, that Roland V-Piano looks tempting just from the description and the demos - it's remarkable 
what modern technology is capable of. Superb digital emulation of a grand piano, or wonderful real piano which is "only" an upright, 
for about the same price? That's a hard decision! - I don't know if I'm going to spend that money at all, but knowing myself, if I 
do, I'll probably go for the real thing, the Essex.

JH.