Pinning and Tone

[Alan McCoy]

Ah ha! Of course, the second repetition of the note will have less power.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought I was on a different planet. (Well
maybe I am anyway).

Alan

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>
> Alan  writes:
>
> << Pardon my density, but why does higher checking reduce power?
> If the hammer
> tail doesn't drag on the way up (and it shouldn't), I can't see how higher
> checking reduces power. Checking, after all, occurs after the
> hammer has hit
> the string. >>
>
>     The second note played, from check, has an effective blow
> distance equal
> to the checking distance.  Soooo....  if you are checking the
> hammers 1/2"
> from the strings, you have less than 30% as much blow distance.
> I have had
> artists tell me that the piano seemed to lose power on fast
> repetions when I had
> attained an extremely close check.  Lowering the checking
> distance restored the
> power that they were missing, and oddly enough, didn't get
> perceived as slower
> repetition.
>    Everything in an action is a compromise between functions.
> Regards,
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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