[CAUT] Fwd: Steinway sound-Hammer weights

[Dale Erwin]

Understood.  Good being a relative term to modern pianos of the last several decades or more.  
 I guess the limiting factor in every age is how heavy the action is and will it give you carpal tunnel.
 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 2:11 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Fwd:  Steinway sound-Hammer weights



On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:


Usually I find that actions with good overall key/action ratios (ie 5.5) are sabotaged with this kind of weight



    I would just note that the notion of 5.5 as a "good" action ratio is a pretty modern one, last 50 years, say. If we want to talk about pianos of the late 19th and early 20th century, often with reverent terms as a benchmark to emulate, we need to remember that 6:1, 7:1, 8:1 are also "good" ratios. This is particularly true if we want to talk about the "good" felt of that time and the tone quality it produced. IOW, ratio, weight, and felt quality (density in particular) are all factors that need to be in sync with one another. (Leaving aside other concerns, like the belly design and scale, that obviously also come into play).

 

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Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
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