V T wrote: >Hello Sarah, Ric and Friction Thread, > >............ >Back to the issue of control: Up to a point, if the >musician has more time to push the key (for a given >required momentum), he will probably be in more >control. If there is too much friction, things will >not be so pleasant, as he will have to push harder, or >else he will run out of time. If the action has less >friction, he will have to be more nimble - there will >not be much time between the pressing and the >releasing. > > Exactly.... >Also note that the piano with the higher friction will >require the pianist to start with the note just a >little sooner so that the note can sound on time; in a >sense he too has to be fast. It's just that on the >higher friction piano he has to be faster moving his >hands/fingers between notes. > > A tad Faster... and a tad stronger yes...the flip side of this particular tradeoff. Control has its cost to be sure. >I think that this is fundamentally the first order >effect we are discussing. It gets more complicated, >of course, but I hope the description sheds some >light! > > I agree. Refreshingly on track and straight forwardly put... two times in a row now. >Vladan > > > Cheers RicB > > > > >_______________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. >http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >
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