[CAUT] Just how much brilliance can a pianist make ?

[Leslie Bartlett]

Please check out AdamGolka.com, one of the heaviest of hitters I've 
seen.  Contrast that to a rather smallish client of years ago, now moved 
from Houston who was constantly breaking strings on his Kawai KG6, I 
think, saying it was caused by the technique he was taught, not the 
amount of weight on the action.
les bartlett


Fred Sturm wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Richard Brekne wrote:
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>> That said, and interesting as the above contrast is, I am really most 
>> interested in hearing more on the lines of just how strong a pianist 
>> needs to be to get the most out of an instrument. If Jeff Tanners 
>> post is representative... then it strikes me that there is something 
>> else going on then just the velocity / momentum of the hammer.  Jeff 
>> is probably no overly light handed person yet he reports a heavy 
>> weighter being able to induce a buzz that no one else could... that 
>> would seem to indicate that very very strong hands can indeed get 
>> more volume/energy out of the instrument then less strong hands.  Yet 
>> the physical limitations as I understand them... and as has been 
>> discussed several times here and on pianotech would seem to prohibit 
>> this.
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