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All musical instruments are like wines, some are very bitter, some are softer. Of course, we may use analogy as a joke, lending the senses of the palate to explain the reason for human hearing, although this language is purely metaphorical, in other words, a figure of language that produces figurative meanings by means of implicit comparisons.

That is it: the human being is able to feel 4 differences in the palate: salty, sweet, bitter and sour with it's acidic characteristics, but the use of monosodium glutamate discoverd in Japan in the early twentieth century, made a new flavor called UMAMI or savory taste. This fifth flavor, does very bad to the human being, and is seriously detrimental to our health. Sometimes I listen to some Audio or some physical sample modeling that seem to be a UMAMI flavor, in our hearing, the violin is there, but, it will never get close to the timbre of the Stradivarius.

The human hearing also perceives the "taste" of the musical instruments, this taste is called timbre, by the way, it is the same name that the winemakers and oenology give to denominate the wines. Unfortunately, some languages ​​simplified roughly by calling only tone. However, Tone, seem to identify the superficial and generic quality of a musical instruments.

I grew up in a country where I listened and played in the best pianos of this world, including the excellent YAMAHA. Some friends of mine who have a piano store on the side of my house, there I play at the same time to feel the difference of timbre of all the grand large pianos already fabricated in this planet,
For met is enough that I rise of the bench of a Steinway & Sons and sit on another piano called ESSEX on the left, then I go to the right side to sit and play on a big Bösendorfer, on my front I see a Bechstein, Yamahas and others. There I realized that the Suzuki pianos are really bad, the Korean Kawai is excellent.

It is incredible how I learned in this shop that, according to pre-Socratic philosophy, a chair will always be a chair, although it has different designs and sometimes only three legs, the same for the pianos, all of which are pianos, when a layman or amateur will call it a Piano Tone. But, real musicians like us, will notice the different timbre characteristics of each piano. Thus, a professional violinist will prefer to play the timbre of a Stradivarius violin.

Back about those tastes...
Bechstein seems to be a bit bitter, with strings tighter in the bass, sounds drier, that is great for playing baroque music, while Steinway and Bösendorfer are sweet, more velvety, great for any type of music including Jazz and can handle any strong beating.

But, Yamaha has differences between the models of their pianos, if you buy a cheaper Yamaha, you can be very disappointed, of course an 'Yamaha C3' is excellent to be used for any musical genre and can withstand impact during studies,

...but some cheaper Yamaha models, can not stand professional pianists.

The question is, each brain has a different audio format, because it depends on its musical history since our childhood, because there are "two turns" in each hemisphere of the brain (called Gyri temporales transversi, Deutsch: Heschl-Querwindung) that stores all the sounds we have heard all our life since birth, including our mother language.

The, for this reason, some people will never feel the difference between the piano, but they all know that it is the piano that plays.