Low Inertia

[Ed Sutton]

Jim-

I feel you're really onto something here, and expressing it in a fresh and 
clear way.

There are musicians who are playing with a focus to the music they hear 
right in front of them, and there are pianists who are playing to the 
audience 20 rows out in the hall. They seem to have very different 
requirements for the piano.

Have you had a chance to play a Mason & Hamlin with the composite action 
parts? For whatever reason, I felt that the sound was "much closer to my 
finger tip."

Ed




>
> Here's where the action/belly interactiveness come in. When the 
> fundamental
> comes without the strike noise, or at least with minimized strike noise 
> (so you
> still have percussive nature of the instrument) the perception is one of 
> instant
> response to the key stroke. Its an illusion I think, but who cares, 
> perception
> is my only reality. I think there is a wider window in how your fingers 
> are
> allowed to interact with the action when the sound which follows has 
> minimized
> the initial strike noise. I call that noise the "cringe and wait".  The 
> "cringe
> and wait" also forces me to alter ever so much the ideal tactus of the 
> music I'm
> playing...really a bummer. I can alsop "put up" with a lot more of heavy 
> action
> under better belly conditions.
>

>
> My musical voice is french...very impressionistic...This is why this sound
> appeals to me. Rachmaninoff and the romantics for whom the modern piano 
> was
> developed are not my cup of tea. Does your B agree to play this kind of 
> Germanic
> Romanticism? Not so much for my ears, for for someone else's ears
>

>
 That's why Bruce Clark's geometric framework is so
> attractive to me. Actually it's mostly understanding and implimenting 
> geometry
> that had been in the piano designers book for a long time. I am happy with 
> the
> feel that the current M&H are designed to. But I want to see it in a 
> different
> belly: hence why I engaging this pursuit.
>

> Jim Ialeggio
> www.grandpianosolutions.com (under construction)
> Shirley, MA (978) 425-9026
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