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Show The Piano Touch How mills or rather how few of the tens or thousands who find pleasure und iiotlt In the tontrol ot the ' five-aml-thlrtv black slusea hair-n-hundred white," of our vsell-helosed domestic orchestra or-chestra arc coRiilzant of the fact that the rendition of a classical piece of the average length of 200 birs calls ror nn outlay or mUHcular rorce equnl to the lining or a weight of f.00 pounds avoirdupois' avoir-dupois' a statement which reads more like a record achievement of the renowned re-nowned bandnw than anything else Ihe degree of touch resistance (soys the s tine Journul) has urled considerably consid-erably The weight required to depress the lowest C of the horizontal grand piano of 17f0 was 1 oz 8 elrs , for the grand of 1877, 4 oz nnd for the grand of the present time. 2 oz. 10 dr Piano Journal |