PIANO TONE
Sir-In his column (September 18) your music critic " Marsyas" says: "The upper register of the piano used in the recording (of a Hindemith Sonata) has an extraordinary quality of tone, or else Sanroma has had a set of detachable tack hammers made to fit his fingers. It is a most unpleasant stinging sound that he makes." Science, however, has proved that it is immaterial whether the key is depressed by the finger, a tack hammer or a walking stick, Intensity, and therefore quality of tone, is determined only by the velocity of the hammer at the moment at which it leaves the escapement mechanism and by the action of the pedals. But if the theory of " Marsyas" is correct someone (perhaps George Antheil) may yet write a "Tack- | hammerklavier " Sonata
T.
A.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 171, 2 October 1942, Page 3
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135PIANO TONE New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 171, 2 October 1942, Page 3
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