Touch and Vibration

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Richard

Its amazing what actually can be gelt at the key if one only starts 
paying attention to it.  Perhaps some pianists have an inbuilt 
sensitivity to such things, or maybe they just  notice this kind of 
thing at some point for some reason or another. Regardless it seems 
obvious that what you feel at the finger is influenced by the condition 
of the hammer. Both in terms of its hardness and elasticity, and also in 
terms of the mechanics of its motion. Just how signicant this is, and 
how to explain this in terms of physics is another matter. Difficult at 
best, yet there has been some bonified hard research done.

Course a good starting point is to start feeling things at the key, and 
its actually quite fascinating too eh ?

Cheers
RicB

Richard Moody wrote:

--Richard Brekne wrote:

One question in particular I would like your thoughts on.It is said by some that pianists can feel at the keys with the fingers,the impact of the hammer on the strings. Do you have any studies that godirectly to this point ? And in anycase, what do you think of thatassertion ?


>
>I felt this for the first time the other day.   I had been playing
>on the Yamaha Clavinova.  Right after that I went back to the
>Everett upright I was tuning and felt vibrations in the keys I had
>never
>noticed before.  Probably from checking.   BTW I wonder what
>anyone else thinks of the tuning? (of the Clavinova)     ;
> ---ric
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