This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tom Servinsky=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: August 16, 2002 2:51 AM Subject: Re: Seiler Super Magnet Repition Action. I would contact Richard Davenport in Los Angeles. Richard actively is = retrofitting magnetic keyboards and has experimented extensively with = this subject. Interesting thing that you mentioned Seiler... this summer at the Chicago PTG Seiler had sent one of their voicers = to teach a voicing class. Good class by the way. During the class the subject was shifted to inertia...what was it, how = does it feel, how does it feel and the affects if inertia to = great...yada, yada, yada. The point was made about magnetic actions and his response was = interesting in that, even though inertia (can in many times) becomes our = worst nightmare, it is also a characteristic of a piano keyboard. His = thought was that the magnetic keyboard, and in theory it works = beautifully, will present an entirely different, foreign feel to the = piano. His theory was that there would many artists-types who would not = feel comfortable playing a keyboard with such a different feel. I've played on several magnetic keyboards and personally I didn't feel = the same sentiment as the gentleman from Seiler.=20 Tom Servinsky, RPT Two different things Tom. The original question was about the magnetic = repulsion system Seiler used for a time in the jack of thier upright = actions. You are refering to the magnetic balancing system used to = replace the leading in grand keys. Since I don't have any direct = experience with either.... Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d2/79/15/1b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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