"High-fidelity" in musical tone production?

The tremendous surge of interest in "high-fidelity" sound during recent years has attracted the attention of many manufacturers in commercial fields peripheral to the manufacture of sound equipment. Recently (and somewhat paradoxically) several manufacturers of musical instruments have attempted to capitalize on "hi-fi" interest. It is concluded that the goal of sound reproducer research and development has been to attempt to recreate the original sound. Presumably one-hundred per cent fidelity would be the achievement of perfect reproduction of the original sound. Manufacturers of musical instruments should think this through before paying the high compliment of imitation to their own imitators. A music production system has inherent advantages in quality of performance over music repro· duction systems Gower system noise and distortion, for example). Surely exploitation of such inherent advantages is a more positive and lasting policy for producers of music production equipment than borrowing publicity generated by producers of music reproduction equipment.