Steinway heavy touch

[Avery Todd]

Stéphane,

Why does a home need a pianist with extremely strong fingers??? :-)

Avery

At 10:22 PM 06/15/03 +0200, you wrote:
>here, we don't call that a piano.  We call that a home trainer.
>
>Stéphane.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Strang" <rstrang@pa.inter.net>
>To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:28 PM
>Subject: RE: Steinway heavy touch
>
>
>| I just have to tell my story about heavy playing pianos. I tune and service
>| a Yamaha LU-90 owned by a concert pianist who is also a piano teacher here
>| in Panama. He had me install a total of 3 1/2 lead weights ON EACH KEY to
>| make it play as heavy as possible. The 1/2 weight is mounted on the end of
>| the key. He advocates weighting the keys so that he will never run into a
>| piano thats hard to play. The touch weight is twice that of a Steinway D. He
>| must have pretty strong fingers by now.