How to play acoustic instruments authentically on a keyboard

[⚖Hugh Wallington]

Before I had my Yamaha AR80 I had a Farfisa Balmoral organ, and that had ‘tabs’ on it to get the various voices.  And on these tabs it used to say things like ‘Clarinet’, ‘Saxophone’, ‘Trumpet’, ‘Violin’ and so on.  People watching me playing would never listen to what I was playing .. they just looked at the names on the tabs I was using and make comments like, “That doesn’t sound like a clarinet!”.  Or, “That doesn’t sound like a trombone!”.  I wished sometimes that they didn’t use names of real instruments to describe the sound the organ was making eg. “A woody sound”, or “A brassy sound”.  But then they would never have sold any organs!  As I understand it, they used to create these sounds by mixing sine waves, sawtooth waves and square waves. 
 
But I must admit that the way they sample the real instruments these days gives a very good sound of the real instrument.  When I got my Tyros 4, the first tune I played was Beautiful Dreamer (my version of it!) and was completely bowled over by the sound of the Concert Guitar.  You could even hear the strings being plucked!
 
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Hugh