---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Ric (and Stephen), Just wanted to voice my appreciation for what you guys wrote,=20 particularly what I quoted below and what Stephen wrote which prompted=20= Ric's replies. There is ridiculous amount more to a pianist making a sound on the=20 piano than "a finger on the key". My entire high-level instruction ( >=20= university level, to define what that means) has been on two things=20 only. One of them is achieving a particular tone on the piano. I still=20= study this after 12 years of it and have no intention of stopping - the=20= man I study with studies with another master of the piano these same=20 things. - John > The first quote is a point I have tried time and time again to make,=20= > the insistence by many on confusing the concepts of <<improvement>> or=20= > <<better>> or <<good>> with some engineering concept without real=20 > regard to how the end user (pianists) actually experience=20 > instruments.=A0 A classic example of this is criticisms levied often = at=20 > some manufactures scales.=A0 No matter whether or not pianists = actually=20 > display a real and obvious preference for one sort or another... if=20 > the scale does not fit some (particular)=A0 mathematical model... it = is=20 > no good and can not possible sound good.=A0 <snip> > The third goes to the specific matter of piano touch itself and=20 > reminds me much of the more dispassionate and interesting musings and=20= > studies that come from Alexander Galembo and Anders Askenfelt on this=20= > subject.=A0 p <snip> > The pianist is a lot more than just a finger on the key. "= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1580 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/99/c4/4f/9b/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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