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I can't believe you are serious Mike. My piano teacher's Steinway is the only instrument I would consider swapping my mellotron for. The amount of control you have over the sound is amazing, you would have to have hundreds of samples per note to duplicate the sound. 

I much prefer a mellotron to samples but surely the differences in playing a single note ten times are mainly differences of pitch, not dynamics and tonal quality as on a piano. Altough you get different sounds from a mellotron I am not convinced you have that much control over them.

With the new mellotron there will be no difference so why bother replicating the keyboard ( my dislike of the action being just my honest opinion)  and making it look like a mellotron which it isn't. Other than the obvious point of making it sell. It is just a very expensive device to play back samples.

Mark

PS I know it wasn't your post but the Steinway is about as much use for rock music as the mellotron is for baroque.

--- On Sun, 1/17/10, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:

Sampling a Steinway (or at least 'getting an accurate digitalpicture of one') is probably much easier as Steinways are way moreconsistent in their sound than a Mellotron. You can play the same noteten times on a Mellotron and they won't sound the same every time, inthe same way my upright piano doesn't play the same way two days in arow. Steinways on the other hand have centuries of engineeringrefinement in them that gives you a very consistent sound.

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