John Delacour wrote: > > I did ask Dan to publish the original patent so that some semblance > of objectivity and science could be brought to this wandering and > opinionated thread and a few comparative oscillographs would speak > far more convincingly than anything I've read so far. I think many of us would love to see some of this put up on the list, along with some of the other less rigorously taken findings. > I notice that > as soon as I brought a few numbers into the "all in a row" thread, > the silence was deafening! Well, JD.. I agree again...the silence was interesting... but then somethings have a way of dying by virtue of their own unreasonabilty. I think trying to sell an 8 mm key dip and 40 grams static downweight difference between blacks an whites is going to be er.....difficult at best. Still it does lead in an interesting direction, that discussion about how pianists experience touch. For them the expression "light touch" seems to equate more to "easy to accomplish that which I intend" as often as it means anything to do with weight concerns. Alexander Galembo has done some fascinating research along this lines, and in our discussion in Stockholm he seemed to be telling me not to place toooo awfully much weight on a mathematic model which seeks to describe dynamic touchweight. To keep my mind open to what players are actually feeling. Alex, if you are still listening in... perhaps you might breifly describe that experiment you were telling me about ?? > JD -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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