Pinning on new flanges

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:01:18 +0100


V T wrote:

>Hello Sarah, Ric and Friction Thread,
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>............
>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.
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>
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!
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>
I agree.  Refreshingly on track and straight forwardly put... two times 
in a row now.

>Vladan
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Cheers
RicB

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