{"id":1595,"date":"2013-11-16T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2013-11-17T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:45:00","slug":"piano-action-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/archives\/1595","title":{"rendered":"Hammer and Anvil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;\">\nMy action&#8217;s too heavy, so playing&#8217;s a fight.<br \/>\nIt gives me bad dreams of both left hand and right.<br \/>\nAre those hammers out there at the ends of the shanks? <!--more--><br \/>\nOr anvils? Or what? All I&#8217;m drawing is blanks.<\/p>\n<p>Is <i>mass<\/i> of the hammers what makes the touch heavy?<br \/>\nWrong <i>balance<\/i> of keys, eighty-eight in the bevy?<br \/>\nIs <i>friction<\/i> the culprit that slows it all down?<br \/>\nIs just one the trickster, is just one the clown?<\/p>\n<p>When downweight&#8217;s OK but the playing is hard,<br \/>\nWhen upweight&#8217;s all right but the feel is still marred,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look for one answer nor magic solution,<br \/>\nBut check on all three for the truth <i>sans<\/i> dilution. <\/p>\n<p>The balance of keys, hammer mass <i>and<\/i> the friction<br \/>\n(Which might be described somewhat better as <i>stiction<\/i>).<br \/>\nKeep these three in mind and the task won&#8217;t be hard.<br \/>\nTake my words to heart and you&#8217;ll be OK, pard&#8217;!\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"jb-end-of-post\"><img class=\"jb-end-of-post\" src=\"\/Mordent.svg\" \/><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My action&#8217;s too heavy, so playing&#8217;s a fight. It gives me bad dreams of both left hand and right. Are those hammers out there at the ends of the shanks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boykonpiano.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}