Talk:Electronic piano

While the electronic piano could in some ways be viewed as a precursor to the digital piano (and in a few cases was actually designed as a serious replacement for an acoustic piano), I believe it is a sufficiently DIFFERENT type of instrument to warrant its own article. (comment not signed)

The electronic piano is not a direct precursor to the digital piano. Being an analog device, it is more correctly viewed as a precursor to the analog sysnthesizer, such as the Moog or the ARP. It is essentially an analog synthesizer hard-wired to produce a specific voice or voices, i.e., piano or clavichord. 69.19.14.26 14:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Another argument is that the electronic piano is a development of the portable "combo" organ, and indeed most manufacturers of electronic pianos had also been making such organs during the 1960s. The earliest electronic pianos (the RMI and the Farfisa Professional) considerably pre-date true polyphonic synthesisers, and did not greatly influence their development (for example, most early polysynths used voice-allocation systems rather than the the fully-polyphonic architecture used by electronic pianos). (Butterfingersbeck, 2-1-2006)

Agreed. The tone generation architecture that combo organs and electonic pianos share is fundamentally different from that used in analog synthesizers. It employs either 12 fixed pitch oscillators for each of the 12 tones in the chromatic scale or one high frequency oscillator, combined with frequency divider circuits to simultaneously generate all the notes used by the instrument. These are then fed in groups through filters to shape the final timbre. Synthesizers, by constrast, use a limited number of variable ptch oscillators that track the note or notes pressed on the keyboard. One or more oscillators is grouped with a filter and amplifier that are keyed to variable envelope generators, allowing for a great deal of tonal flexibilty at the cost of polyphony. Before the advent of microprocessors, analog synthesizers (e.g. Minimoog, Arp Odyssey) were limited to one or two voice polyphony at most. Blueminute 22:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Why dont we just get rid of the merge notice? I think it is pretty clear that the two are different. One uses analog synthesis, while the other is digital. If it was merged with digital piano, what would you call the article? The are better in their own articles anyway, to avoid confusion. --Nsmith 84 05:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge tags were removed. See Talk:Digital piano for the explanation.--Trweiss 19:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

names of keys

genrally there are 12keys that i know so far —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.114 (talk) 14:50, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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