<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Op 13-12-2010 16:44, James R. Coplin schreef:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Not to nitpick, but there is such a thing as prepared piano which came about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">precisely because people were dissatisfied with the "preset" grand piano<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sound. That being said, I've never heard a prepared piano piece that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">compares for me to a non-prepared piano.<br></blockquote><br>Well, yeah, that's my point. Do Vangelis' 'Direct' and 'The City' albums <br>sound crap because he uses practically only presets from the Korg T1? <br>They do not, if you ask me. Would they have sounded better, if all-new <br>sounds had been used. Doubtful, because the whole feel of each piece <br>comes from the sounds used.<br><br>With different sounds, probably the pieces would have had to be <br>different as well. But it's all "what if" speculation; point is, you can <br>write great music without re-inventing the wheel every time. Sound <br>engineering is not the same as composing.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Daft Punk did put a bit reducer/crusher on the London Orchestra though :)</div><br></body></html>