This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I would contact Richard Davenport in Los Angeles. Richard actively is = retrofitting magnetic keyboards and has experimented extensively with = this subject. Interesting thing that you mentioned Seiler... this summer at the Chicago PTG Seiler had sent one of their voicers to = teach a voicing class. Good class by the way. During the class the subject was shifted to inertia...what was it, how = does it feel, how does it feel and the affects if inertia to = great...yada, yada, yada. The point was made about magnetic actions and his response was = interesting in that, even though inertia (can in many times) becomes our = worst nightmare, it is also a characteristic of a piano keyboard. His = thought was that the magnetic keyboard, and in theory it works = beautifully, will present an entirely different, foreign feel to the = piano. His theory was that there would many artists-types who would not = feel comfortable playing a keyboard with such a different feel. I've played on several magnetic keyboards and personally I didn't feel = the same sentiment as the gentleman from Seiler.=20 Tom Servinsky, RPT ----- Original Message -----=20 From: jphouweling=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Seiler Super Magnet Repition Action. Hello today I saw a Seiler with magnets in the jacks. I have heard = that petrof and bosendorfer use magnets in their keys. Does anyone know = where I can see diagrams of these? Also does anyone know the pros and = cons of such initiatives?? Thanks Jack=20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/48/7b/b5/89/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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