[silence] prepared piano samples

[Glenn Freeman]

I agree. However, many of the interactions you refer to (interference  
beating, and a plethora of complex sounds and noises) also occur when  
combining sounds in the digital realm (albeit with different  
results). Thus, such chance color aspects of a composition (non- 
controllable; different in each performance) occur equally in both  
realms (digital and live).

There are no old ways, only different ways.

Daniel Wolf wrote:

> While such a sample set might be useful for some practicing, it  
> strikes
> me that samples of single tones will necessarily miss much of the
> interactive quality of tones, which when played both simultaneously  
> and
> overlapping can create sympathetic resonances, interference  
> beating, and
> a plethora of complex sounds and noises that would require a very  
> large
> and unwhieldy sample set to recreate. Sometimes doing it the old way
> can be more efficient.