Please check out AdamGolka.com, one of the heaviest of hitters I've seen. Contrast that to a rather smallish client of years ago, now moved from Houston who was constantly breaking strings on his Kawai KG6, I think, saying it was caused by the technique he was taught, not the amount of weight on the action. les bartlett Fred Sturm wrote: > On Aug 23, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Richard Brekne wrote: > >> That said, and interesting as the above contrast is, I am really most >> interested in hearing more on the lines of just how strong a pianist >> needs to be to get the most out of an instrument. If Jeff Tanners >> post is representative... then it strikes me that there is something >> else going on then just the velocity / momentum of the hammer. Jeff >> is probably no overly light handed person yet he reports a heavy >> weighter being able to induce a buzz that no one else could... that >> would seem to indicate that very very strong hands can indeed get >> more volume/energy out of the instrument then less strong hands. Yet >> the physical limitations as I understand them... and as has been >> discussed several times here and on pianotech would seem to prohibit >> this. > >
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