[Faolan glances aside at the younger man and tries to will himself to calm down enough to be able to explain what it is that he means.]
In a way, yes. But it's more than just the feel of it. Here...
[He presses a note on the keyboard in front of them.] A real piano has a mechanism attached to each key that lifts to strike the string to play a note. When you learn to play, your fingers get used to having to press that hard to press the key down and move the mechanisms. That's what they call weight. A lot of pianos have different weights to them, but a keyboard that doesn't doesn't have any weight to the keys feels artificial, and doesn't play well. But the way a keyboard feels is the weight. Touch is... [He casts his eyes to the side to make certain he hasn't lost Laurent yet.]
Touch is the way the keys respond to you? It's not only the difference in how loud or soft you're playing, but how briefly you press and release? Again, for a real piano, pressing the keys is supposed to control a mechanism to hit the strings the way you press the key. But there is no string to strike in a digital keyboard. And if the touch is off, it doesn't matter how good you are -- you're not going to be able to make a digital piano sound the way it should. It's like... The difference between chanting the lyrics of a song and singing them, yeah? The words are all there in the right rhythms, but there's something missing. If. That makes sense.
[He realizes that may have been more than Laurent was asking for, but. He did ask.]
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In a way, yes. But it's more than just the feel of it. Here...
[He presses a note on the keyboard in front of them.] A real piano has a mechanism attached to each key that lifts to strike the string to play a note. When you learn to play, your fingers get used to having to press that hard to press the key down and move the mechanisms. That's what they call weight. A lot of pianos have different weights to them, but a keyboard that doesn't doesn't have any weight to the keys feels artificial, and doesn't play well. But the way a keyboard feels is the weight. Touch is... [He casts his eyes to the side to make certain he hasn't lost Laurent yet.]
Touch is the way the keys respond to you? It's not only the difference in how loud or soft you're playing, but how briefly you press and release? Again, for a real piano, pressing the keys is supposed to control a mechanism to hit the strings the way you press the key. But there is no string to strike in a digital keyboard. And if the touch is off, it doesn't matter how good you are -- you're not going to be able to make a digital piano sound the way it should. It's like... The difference between chanting the lyrics of a song and singing them, yeah? The words are all there in the right rhythms, but there's something missing. If. That makes sense.
[He realizes that may have been more than Laurent was asking for, but. He did ask.]