TheSimon wrote:Before electricity, sensations and attention towards an acoustic instrument were very different. It is also said that the ear of the 1800s was extremely different from today's. It was a more ready and more powerful ear, and indeed the instruments of the era were much less powerful than those of today. Instruments like the piano were not like those of today (construction technology issues aside). Today's need to build such powerful pianos is only to fill concert halls (for grand pianos), and to compensate for this lack of capture by the ear (for upright and small-sized pianos). Electricity has truly changed everything, even the way music is made if we think about the first synthesizers. In a certain sense, another scientific/musical branch has developed: that of electroacoustics, and subsequently a new musical style was born, that of electronic music.
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