Beethoven

I once loved to play my Piano - especially when I had my Grand Piano. I did indeed leave my Piano open - and when I passed it I felt a compulsion to play if only to run my hands over the keys in a chromatic scale.

My all time favourite 'sit down and play the piano because it's an open invitation' was Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique.

The Electric Roland piano I now have does not have this effect on me - this pull towards it and compulsion to play. In fact I never leave it open at all. It may be able to mimic a grand piano, a church organ or even a human voice, but these are just gimmicks. Even with good the amplifiers it just can't anywhere approach the richness and tone of the real Grand Piano.