We hear much about the opposite so I thought you might like to hear the other side!
Some back ground which is why you really might listen to me!
I started as an organist (in 1967) so maybe that's why I prefer keyboards. Been playing publicly on all kinds of keyboards (including acoustic pianos) since 1968 and teaching them to folks of All Ages (really, my entire practice now only has older folks) since 1987 so I'm NOT a novice.
Also, I've written many books on the less-discussed aspects of music. They are available at amazon.com.
Any piano sound "fades away" the moment you strike it. There is nothing you can do after your initial impulse. Sure you can keep the key down, but that only allows you to know where your hands are on the keyboard. It does nada for the sound.
That's the nature of the sound from a gradually decaying anything, like a piano string or a drum head or or or...
I recall vividly the first time I realized that my carefully constructed chord was "going away." Yes, that was on an acoustic piano.
Thus, the first thing that a keyboard can do that an acoustic can't is replicate sound (instruments) that do not "fade away." Ever since memory went down in price, most keyboards do NOT "make" the sound but rather simply "reproduce" it.
This is often times referred to as a "bell and whistle" by the un-informed person.
I encourage you to refer all such people to this series of posts.
It's called a sample and it's a computer recording of the real thing. Multi-samples are numerous samples recorded at various places in the instruments range and at various playing volumes. These are now part of most keyboards, even the cheap ones. Samples are cheap. That's the reason these instruments are so cheap.
There are many other reasons, not just price, which I will cover in my next few posts.
