Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann

[Cy Shuster]

Stanwood says that practicing on pianos optimized with his system make it 
easier to adjust to lesser instruments.  See #4:
http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/faq.htm

--Cy Shuster--
Bluefield, WV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley@stanford.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: RE: Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann


>....here are these young kids, with the skeletal and muscular systems still 
>very much in quick development, doing (in that setting) a fair amount of 
>practice (which is to say, developing the muscle-memory that comes from 
>repetition in practice) on an instrument which gave them an ungrounded 
>sense of accomplishment and ability.  This is not to say that there were 
>not some exceptionally talented people playing.  It is to say that one 
>wonders how these folks might, if afforded such actions for protracted 
>periods of time (for, say, a number of years), adjust when the get to the 
>more "real" world, and have to play on whatever is presented to them...