---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment This discussion has gone back and forth for a hundred years or more now, and its been illustrated in innumerable ways throughout our tradition. One has a choice to make and one chooses based on what particular balancing of touch and tonal effects one wants. All that is fine. Where we go over the border is when we insist that there is some rational for declaring one particular preference is by definition superior to others. The areana simply does not fit the game as it were. And really folks... the diversity is one of our real strengths. The really new aspect of all of this development is the advent of a system for unprecedented evening in balancing whatever preferences each individual has. > Dave wrote: > > ..... While this necessitates relatively low strike weights (by > today's standards), I am more and more inclined to think that this dilemma > represents the Sophie's choice of action design. > > A sobering thought - Cristofori has an action ratio of 10:1. > > Stephen Birkett > > And a hammer that weighed nearly nothing. > > Ron N > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f6/dd/a1/3a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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