Sarah Fox wrote: > First apply force to a heavy keystick. It goes into slow motion. The > hammer hits the string in slow motion. Everything is slow. Not much energy > transferred to the string. > > Now remove keystick mass. Less mass means the key/action moves faster with > the *same force*. That means the hammer moves to the string faster and > strikes the string harder. More energy transferred to the string for the > same amount of input energy (again, equal to force times keydip). That > makes it more efficient. Wait a second here.... I'll buy if this if you get past gravitional acceleration, but until that point, *same force* from the finger will not result in the hammer moving faster... everything will get slowed down... finger including. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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