The Good kind of Heavy / Barbara

[Richard Brekne]

Hi there Barbara !

Barbara Richmond wrote:
>
> Hey Ric :-)
> 
> Nice description of a piano's tone, but was he asking specifically *what*
> the pianist could accomplish with a heavy but good action??

No... but then I selected the text for its eloquence rather then its
relevance to this thread. I just liked the picture painted as it were :)

> 
> I was looking for something more on the lines of this (quoted from the same
> postee, but I wanted to see if we would hear it from one of your pianists):
> 
> > I believe student pianists like some heaviness in the action in the
> > sense this gives them a better perception, then they are under the
> > impression that things are easier to control (particularly if they are
> > healthy pianists).


Ah yes... but it says nothing about what that heaviness consists of.
Even if we limit this to strictly touchweight concerns we are left with
the exact question this offshoot thread origionaly posed... what kind of
<<heavyness>> is <<good>>... what action parameters constitute the
<<Good kind of Heavy>> ? Still, since you ask it, I will put this exact
phrasing to some of our students to see if there is some aggreement or
not. 

Stanwood and gang (of which I am one) would have us believe that a low
ratio to handle high the SW's is the ticket... but this points decidedly
in another...  opposite direction. Common ground is the belief in assist
springs (or what have you) to allow for low key mass (and hence,
inertia)

> 
> Cheers to you, my friend!  ;-)
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> (a distant cousin of Miss Marple)
> 

I tuned her Forte' once !! :):)

Cheers to you as well !
RicB