"David C. Stanwood" wrote: > Brekne wrote: > > >Would be fun to see this instrument. The thing about springs and magnets is > >that the farther into the stroke you get the weaker their effect. This is > >supposed to be a bad thing according to some critics. > > Here is a picture of setting the magnet gaps in the first Simplified Magnet > Action being installed by Stanwood/Pietjouw in Holland at the inventors > workshop. The installation pictured shows magnets used in conjunction with > keyleads. > > http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/magset1.jpg > > David Stanwood Thanks David... am curious... are magnets installed in the keys themselves, or are those just peices of metal that are attracted to the magnets below in the rails ? Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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