Steinway heavy touch

[Stéphane Collin]

Bah, pianists are, like every other animal, in need, or even in obligation to show that they are strong, so they have the right and the ability to survive, maybe even to reproduce themselves.

Sorry if Darwin and Nietsche are out of colour on the list.

Best regards

Stéphane Collin.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: Steinway heavy touch


| Stéphane,
| 
| Why does a home need a pianist with extremely strong fingers??? :-)
| 
| Avery
| 
| At 10:22 PM 06/15/03 +0200, you wrote:
| >here, we don't call that a piano.  We call that a home trainer.
| >
| >Stéphane.
| >
| >
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net>
| >To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
| >Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:28 PM
| >Subject: RE: Steinway heavy touch
| >
| >
| >| I just have to tell my story about heavy playing pianos. I tune and service
| >| a Yamaha LU-90 owned by a concert pianist who is also a piano teacher here
| >| in Panama. He had me install a total of 3 1/2 lead weights ON EACH KEY to
| >| make it play as heavy as possible. The 1/2 weight is mounted on the end of
| >| the key. He advocates weighting the keys so that he will never run into a
| >| piano thats hard to play. The touch weight is twice that of a Steinway D. He
| >| must have pretty strong fingers by now.
| 
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