That's funny. What instrument would you consider then not to be dull? You cannot compare a piano to e.g. a violin or a guitar. It's a completely different concept; you can e.g. play (theoretically) chords with ten or more (when you press two keys with one finger) simultaneous notes; and you can control the timbre and loudness by how fast you press the keys; it's like a percussion instrument with 88 parts.
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The clavichord plays like a piano with aftertouch. Instead of hammers bouncing off the strings with no control except speed, the strings are hit with "tangents" that remain in contact with the string like tapping on a guitar. It was not often used for performance historically because it's too quiet, but modern amplification solves that problem.
Most of them will probably be in the museum. The modern piano has a much larger sound and dynamic range, not to mention the much better tuning stability.
Tuning stability can be solved by adding a robotic tuning mechanism as found on some guitars, and automatically tuning before every performance. Dynamic range can be increased by adding multiple keyboards, each going through different effects pedals. Even with these improvements it will still probably be cheaper than a good grand piano.
Like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZ2Ldrr5ok?
Hurdy Gurdies seem to be a much more elegant keyboard instrument to me.