my mouth is still on the floor

kam544@flash.net kam544@flash.net
Thu Sep 6 12:49 MDT 2001


>You are RIGHT.  It should be _smallest_ difference...
>
>		Newton
>> >From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@optonline.net>
>> >...The setting which provides the greatest difference between up and
>>down weight
>> is
>> > the correct spread.
>>
>>I thought the ideal was to have the friction as low as possible and the
>> upweight as close as possible to the downweight so that the key "stays with
>> the finger" on return.
>>
>> Ed

Ed, Newton, List,

I'm not certain that is correct either.  Having the spread of the numbers
too close together *or* too far apart does not create the ideal frictional
dynamics for that great response.

here's one reference:
After Touch, 50 Point Guide To Grand Regulation, Part XXIV
by David Pitsch, RPT
PT Journal, October 1982, page 19 & 21

Keith McGavern, RPT
Oklahoma Baptist University
Saint Gregory's University
Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA




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