This photo was taken from the viewing platform near the top of Mt. Hiyama, the highest point you can drive up to on the mountain. Hiyama is a mountain located on Kurahashi Island, Hiroshima. (3DMap-1, 3DMap-2).
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A small parking area is available near the viewing platform. Two crests exist near the parking area and both are good viewing spots.
Though I’m not able to play neither piano nor violin, comparing and contrasting their tones has been one of my concerns. If asked which instrument I prefer at present, I would answer that I like piano pieces more than violin pieces. If I evaluate objectively, I admit that the tone of violin itself seems to be much more beautiful than piano tone. But violin tones are too fragile for me, while piano tones are very tough. Of course, violin has a disadvantage in the numbers of tones which can be generated at once. But I think the essence of this comparison isn’t related to the number of notes of polyphony.
Sometime, piano tones sound like a bulldozer as shown in this play on youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKdeYnA8Epw&feature=related
A magnetism of piano play for me exists in the moment when the bulldozer suddenly changes into a little bird. At such moment, I can’t stop thinking that piano is a magic box or an earth's biggest magician.
If we limit the evaluation standard within the realm of fragile beauty, the violin tones may be winner. But sooner or later, modern sound technology will enable us to attach the ‘enhanced playing mode’ to usual pianos. A switch into enhanced playing mode will transform little bird's chirp into more sophisticated fragile tones, which real material's vibration can’t generate. Piano will evolve with the calculated tone technique.
(I'm entirely outside the ropes on music. Above idea is merely my cup of tea. If you are a wholehearted violin lover, please disregard this entry as an amateur's sleep talking.)
