In the event of World War 3....

[Derek]

And every major city on the planet is obliterated....

Acoustic pianos will still work.

[m1469]

I just really let myself think about this and it was a huge soothing to me... I am just going to go ahead and take it in... hook, line, and sinker.  As long as those accoustic pianos still work, the world is worth its salt in my book.  I need it, I guess.

m1469   

[i_m_robot]

sadly the surviving termites will make a quick meal of them

[m1469]

sadly the surviving termites will make a quick meal of them

ooooo, those bloody a**holes 

[Dazzer]

at least the strings will be there... and pianists will devise a way to hammer them without keys.

[i_m_robot]

then itd be a new instrument

the hammer + piano string = hamiano string

[Dazzer]

and we'd all be called

Harmianists?
Harmiano Stringist?

[Siberian Husky]

And every major city on the planet is obliterated....

Acoustic pianos will still work.

what a coincidence..i just got finished watching "The Pianist"...

[pianonut]

in the event of WWIII, pianos will be the last thing on people's minds.  you can't eat them, you know.  maybe someone should invent edible pianos. 

seriously, in war times, people traded and bartered.  maybe one could barter their piano.  but, of course, as in all wars, everyone becomes pretty much equalized and music will probably not help with outbreaks of disease, etc.  what if there was a way to bring peace to the world with music.  perhaps the angels will bring that music with them at Christ's return.  otherwise, why would Handel have created such a masterpiece for us to learn the words to.  Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

[Jacey1973]

That's what i love about acoustic pianos, even when there's a power cut i can keep on practising 

[Bob]

As long as those acoutic pianos aren't radiated.  :x

What about tuning them?  You would have to do that yourself if you couldn't find a tuner.  Although you would probably be pretty hungry and more worried about finding food.


What would WWIII look like?  Would it be nuclear?

Who would be fighting who and over what?

I could see conflict over energy, overpopulation, the disparity between the spread of wealth and opportunity in the world.

Something might inolve the U.S.  There aren't any countries like it.  Another opponent might be China or North Korea, the Russian area, maybe someplace like India with its rise of technology.  Then there are the little terrorist groups... Maybe this is WWIII now and these little groups will always be around doing things.

Who would fight?  It would certainly not have to necessarily involve live people.  We already have real robots with weapons ready to go (just like the Terminator movie -- It's out there.  Look it up if you don't buy this.  Guns on wheels with a software program, just like the movie.  An army that fights and then gets stored in a warehouse.)

Where would they fight?  If the internet becomes more popular, more used.... why not wage a war there too besides the physical world?


I wonder when it would happen then?  And if anything we see now would be a little part of the causes of it.

[vences5]

This reminded me of that sad scene in Cold Mountain...

[janice]

otherwise, why would Handel have created such a masterpiece for us to learn the words to.  Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

YES!!!!!!!!

[janice]

That's what i love about acoustic pianos, even when there's a power cut i can keep on practising 

About 10 years my church sold a perfectly fine grand piano and got a digital.  It was at the recommendation of the then music director.  She left, and we were left with all this high-tech stuff.  There are like 5 of us who play regularly, and NONE of the others like this digital!!! So it is beyond me why they kept it (I think because it never has to be tuned.  That fact always seems to impress the non-musicians).  Well, I was always complaining about it to whoever would be within earshot (I'm very outspoken as it is!).  Well guess what happened?  As soon as the service started one Sunday morning there was a thunderstorm and the power went out!!!  So we had NO music!!!  I was laughing about it, because I thought "It serves them right because they got rid of the acoustic and think that the digital is the best invention since the lightbulb!!!"  So......maybe NOW they will listen to us musicians!!

[c18cont]

Way ta go Janice,...,and others..

I agree...The little church I have elected to play for (as I am trying to be involved in only real small programs now that I have gotten older....), absolutly DEMANDS only a digital, "as you have to tune the real thing all the time"...in spite of my pointing out the relative few times a year that it needs service.....

AND....They just had to service the yamaha dig...as it had lost a component and it cost over $250.... and still sounds like a digital...

John

[pianonut]

too bad churches can't afford to have both.  the nice thing about digital is that you can carry it around - so if you play gigs, also, you can take it from location or move it easily.  but, the romance/sound of a real piano can't be replicated in my opinion, too.  the strings give a vibration to teh room and a resonance. 

janice, we connect on the spiritual stuff too.  and, i'm glad that we tweak bob's interest.  the fact he asks about spiritual as well as physical warfare is quite hightech thinking for most people.  to us, it's true because it's biblical.  even in our own courts we sort of follow the principle "every fact is to be confirmed by two or three witnesses" (II cor. 13:2) so we dismiss things that are proven to be false.

the opposite of the deeds of the spirit (love, joy peace - listed in gal. 5:22) are "immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissentions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, etc."  (gal. 5:19-21) this is what christians are at war with.  their own selves and those that want them to lose their salvation over 'a little fun.'! better to be serious minded and not so much into the here and now.  it's hard as a young adult, but becomes easier as you get older and realize the thrills also have their downsides.  perfection may not be possible, but at least we can say we 'fought a good fight.'

[yamagal]

Aahhh - this thread is encouraging.  I had read the other day in Chang's online book that digital pianos have rendered acoustic uprights obsolete.  I coudln't disagree more!   

[Barbosa-piano]

Aahhh - this thread is encouraging. I had read the other day in Chang's online book that digital pianos have rendered acoustic uprights obsolete. I coudln't disagree more!

Ha, ha  This guy must have had some crappy pianos, and now he has a digital. It really depends on the digital pianos and acoustic pianos he is comparing.

[c18cont]

As one who worked for two small pipe organ companies as a youth,

Let me give agreement to the others about for example..."the strings giving a vib. to the room..." etc.

I was taught in O.T.J training, that in all media and sound that used speakers, you cannot ever move the air...both in as large a quantity and in the direction's with speakers, or horns, as the instruments in acoustic form actually move, including for orchestra and band...

This was then taught basically the same way when I took coursework in acoustics in college..(most of which I hardly remember anymore..!)...(and in pipe organ, I am quite sure of it, when I remember the truly large quantities of air used)...(Of course all this was some 35 years ago... )

I realize that sound reproduction set-ups DO move air, but they also are sealed in a sense, and have movement to the other direction as well, (as that is the sound often reinfourced by ports on many systems), so there is a hard to control series of un-natural effects going on, sometimes interfering with sounds...

Speaker and synth people have been fighting this for YEARS, to the point now of using sampled material and super volume levels with sometimes hundreds of speakers as well as all kinds of units that change the color and resonance in subtle ways..........(It is true that this may not be the case for electrostatics, of course...much harder to determine overall...)

Anyone know new truths about this? or know if there is a thread here that gives some thoughts of other piano lover's feelings on this subject? Everytime I get on this, most people don't want to talk about "cents", and "pitch discrimination" and most of all, "tone color", as determined by human hearing...and may I say, the hugh ammount of material on the web is often very self-serving and contradictory, when not based purely on the scientific material...

I also say..."carry on"...I expect few if any comments on this, but thought it worth a try.

My Regards,   John

[c18cont]

But ...Back to what this thread is about....

"..In The Event....."....Close your eyes, grab your --- with both hands,  and hold on....It's gonna be a bad ride....

John

[bernhard]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
(Albert Einstein)
 

[leahcim]

And every major city on the planet is obliterated....

The US will have an item on the agenda "It's nearly time to join in - discuss"

[pianistimo]

what item are you referring to?

[jeremyjchilds]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
(Albert Einstein)
 

  is right Bernard... :ois right...

[Etude]

  indeed.