Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann

[David Love]

A good selling point, but many pianists claim that practicing on a less
than optimized (at least in terms of weight) piano makes going to a
better one easier and not vice versa.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Cy Shuster
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:26 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Una Corda Adjustments and Christian Zimmermann

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...



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