Re: Real instruments vs. electronic instruments

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> Even though depressing a piano key is discreetly parametric (you send a 
>  hammer event at a velocity).  This event affects the timbre of the 
>string 
as 
>  well as simply the volume.  The player then gets to decide how long to 
>let 
>  the overtones "bloom".

I noticed that when you hit a piano note for the second time
while holding the sus pedal down there's a very different sound.
a lot brighter, because the hammer collides with the vibrations 
from another note.

Many classical pianists are credited with the ability to bring
out the different melodic strands in a polyphonic piece just
by control of the note volumes. (perhaps relevant to building up
polyphonic loops, usually I vary the tone for each layer, but maybe
its nice to use the exact same sound at a different volume level)  


>  Pipe organs are even crazier...The pipes cross-talk so that depending 
>on 
>  what you play, the sound changes (we're not simply talking about 
>  inter-modulation in the ambient here).  This cross-talk is SO STRONG 
>that 
>  the intonation of the pipes change 

........interesting
would that be more noticeable when a high pitched pipe is affected
by a low pitch one? 

andy butler