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Bilbo
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Hmmm.
The question is: Are real wind instruments doomed. Not just flutes. The answer to some extent is Yes as long as some keyboard-playing fool thinks that they can mimic the sound of the other instruments well enough and the audiences accept the synth sound so that they other instruments don't need to be hired for gigs.
The tone quality of the different octaves/registers and notes isn't quite right.
The speed of the vibrato never changes.
There are mistakes/missing notes. Flutter tongueing in one spot?
Just my previous point about this Syrinx solo. Most people don't count this piece correctly right from the get-go. In the interest of interperitation every doted eighth rhythm is counted differently.
I've heard a saxophonist play this piece as well. I thought I was having a bad flashback trip at the time.
~Bilbo
N.E. Ohio
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Patrick
(1467 points)
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Again I agree with Bilbo, it is hard for someone operating a keyboard to mimic the subtlties of a great player
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StephenK
(389 points)
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People pay to watch bad players perform. The fact that there are better players/recordings don't seem to stop these horrid professionals performing... people still enjoy the music somehow.
Worry about the Clarinet and Oboe being phased out before worrying about the flute! 
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Micron
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I agree with Stephen.
Some performers on real instruments, play better than a good synthetic performance. It is still likely that real instrumnets are gradually being takien over by synthetic ones for performance, and as the emulating improves, this is likely to accellerate. Already in pit playing, many of the instruments are "on keyboard".
Articial insrumnets are getting to be a lot cheaper than real ones, and almost certainly cheaper to maintain, although they may not last as many decades before servicing is uneconomical.
"Worry about the Clarinet and Oboe being phased out before worrying about the flute! "
Synthetic clarinet: Schumann Fantasiestucke Clarinet/Piano demo here:
http://www.vsl.co.at/Player.aspx?DemoId=4669&Lang=2
Synthetic Bassoon: (Saint-Saens Sonata):
http://www.vsl.co.at/Player.aspx?DemoId=4670&Lang=2
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StephenK
(389 points)
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Ooohh... Clarinetists are in danger. The flute and bassoon were obvious fakes, but that Clarinet is quite good.
I suspect it is easier to emulate speaker feedback! tee-hee 
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Lera
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All rea l musicalinstruments are in danger even keyboard (dont forget about computer witch could baisicly almost emitate all sounds but on top of all peano/keyboard and winds are the easeyest to be picked on. )
Also I dont think all girls (Counting me)would pay to hear some freek wiht computer tring to emitate sounds.
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Leporello
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Nah, anymore than any life music is really doomed. Sure you can emulate any instrument, but hey, you could put on a CD as well. I very much doubt that you could ever really replace the sound or feel of a good life performance. I go to classical concerts regularly, and you couldn't replace or mimic the sensation of a whole orchestra playing, or for that matter a good soloist, every performance is a unique experience. Anyway, if a keyboard player is good enough to mimic a good soloist life, then I'm happy to hear him/her play the keyboards, he/she doesn't need to fake something else.
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Micron
(1408 points)
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Annmarii wrote "That does not sound like a flute at all "
Ah but it probably does to almost anybody who is not a flute player.
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AnneMarii
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"Ah but it probably does to almost anybody who is not a flute player."
True, Micron, but even when I didn't play the flute, I could tell what was a flute/not a flute
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mycrazylovee
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There's no heart in playing a synthesized flute.
And plus, that recording sounds like a saxoflute o_O Odd, I know.
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Lera
(1391 points)
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If we think of it then computers are taking over the world.
If we listen to stuff on tv (Like rapperes) The disk mixing, precation and keyboard souns are maid by computers and not keyboards.
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