which one sounds better, Guitar or Keyboard?

Iam trying to compare an electronic keyboard (not the acoustic piano) with an acoustic guitar.
The question is: which one sounds good to the ear ? Let me tell you my opinion.

I’d have to mostly agree. Electronic keyboards are typically artificial sounding and don’t authentically reproduce the sound of a piano

But get electronic keyboards confused though with digital pianos (like a Yamaha Clavinova) though. Most digital pianos these days however are extremely realistic sounding. I played piano for about 15 years and swore up and down I’d never touch anything that plugged into the wall, but found electronic pianos have come a long way both in the feel of the instrument and timbre. If blind folded I’d have an extremely hard time telling the difference between a real piano and a digital piano. In fact the only way I would be able to tell the difference is that a digital piano always stays perfectly in tune whereas a real piano does not. Having been raised on a piano that was tuned about once a decade, it’s the only distinguishing characteristic for me!

So if you’re going to compare an acoustic guitar to a electronic keyboard, then guitar wins hands down. But if you’re going to compare to a high quality digital piano, then there is no winner; both instruments sound authentic. Sadly, you get what you pay for with electronic keyboards, so unless you’re going to spend a couple of thousand on a quality keyboard instrument it’s going to sound less and less realistic.

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