Feeling the Hammers when playing

[Avery Todd]

Hi Andre,

Could you possibly expound on this a little? Thanks.

Avery

At 02:44 PM 06/30/02 +0200, you wrote:
>When voicing a piano we must always feel vibrations in the key.
>No vibes, tone nor strong enough. By feeling the differences between the
>keys we have a second sense to aid us in voicing.
>
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> > From: "Richard Brekne" <richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:36:06 +0200
> > To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Subject: Re: Feeling the Hammers when playing
> >
> > Hi Patrick
> >
> > Say if you could remember the name of the instructor I would be very 
> glad to
> > know who it was.
> >
> > I have no doubt that what we hear affects what we feel (or think we 
> feel) in a
> > very big way... but I also wonder about whether or not we really do 
> physically
> > feel the hardness of the hammers, and if so how and how is that explained.
> > Lots
> > of ideas presented but mostly in the form of beponderments.
> >
> > Bill Ballard said something about how difficult it would be to find out
> > anything definant... perhaps this is true but on the other hand it 
> would seem
> > easy enough to ascertain whether or not pianists (or anyone else for that
> > matter) can indeed sense hammer hardness at the key or not.
> >
> > Would seem an interesting and kind of an important point to clear up really
> > when it comes down to it.
> >
> > Anyways, if you remember his name let me know
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > RicB
> >
> >
> > Patrick C Poulson wrote:
> >
> >> Hello All: I remember a discussion in a convention voicing class about the
> >> phenomenon of "psychoacoustics."  The contention of the teacher, whose 
> name
> >> escapes me at the moment, is that what we hear influences what we think we
> >> are feeling as we play the piano.  A very bright piano will be 
> perceived by
> >> many as being "easier" to play, because it seems louder and therefore
> >> doesn't require as much effort from the pianist.  Vice versa for a very
> >> mellow piano, where the pianist may have to play harder to get the 
> piano to
> >> project.  In both cases the pianist is not actually feeling the hammer
> >> itself, but is reacting to the kind of tone the piano is producing and is
> >> automatically and perhaps unconsciously adjusting his or her playing to
> >> compensate for what the instrument is not giving.
> >> Patrick Poulson, RPT
> >
> >
> > Richard Brekne
> > RPT NPTF
> > Griegakadamiet UiB
> >
> >