I started plunking on Grandmas ancient square grand piano at age 5, and it was so out of tune that Native Instruments would market the sound as based on an oriental scale of some sort. Twelve years later, my plunking was in college practice rooms with old spinets, and soon after I bought a Gulbranson spinet, with a delightful bright sound, kept and played it in a drafty garage...sound quality was of little consequence.
I think most people stop playing when it's perceived there is too little reward from the hours needed to gain skills, and often that is related to adults imposing their classical music predelections on kids who find it irrelevant and boring. If not difficult to meet lesson-plan expectations. Same scenario for guitar, my first one, the action was so high you could roll a golf ball under the strings 
and sharpen knives on the frets 
But I heard the magic of Jimi Hendrix and Chet Atkins, and new there must be hope 
I realisze musicianship isn't for everyone, and so glad my heart surgeon chose the scalpel over the harmonica!
I haven't heard a modern sample/plugin based piano sound too bad to play yet. But will still snoop around my collection for 'the right sound'
and 'the right ambience' for what is being imagined.
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by glowrak guy — Wed Feb 19, 2025 1:30 am