Re: Trigger pull "inside baseball" - Compare and contrast.
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:13 pm
Thanks, TAM... I can come up with dozens of examples that relate to playing musical instruments alone, but I figure they are not in the normal range of what folks on this forum are familiar with. The piano keys is an extremely good example. With an unweighted, light-touch keyboard action (plastic synth keys) it is very difficult or perhaps impossible to play with refined dynamics but on a real live piano (I have a 6'1" grand piano...) the action is a whole different story, and you can play with tremendous dynamics if you have the skills.
I think in nearly ever case, fine motor skills are enhanced by a balanced amount of resistance to whatever it is you are doing. Now some piano players prefer a very stiff Yamaha action (not me). Some like the more momentum feel of an action more like a Steinway or a Kawai (include me in this camp). Some like the lighter feel of some other pianos. Key travel, overtravel, the feel of the key when it bottoms, how it can pivot and how quickly it moves back up are all keys to fine movement on the piano. If you spend hours a day playing on a Steinway then a Yamaha is going to feel very strange. So even when the range of resistance is in a pretty narrow range of grand piano actions, there can be quite a difference in fine-motor feel of each action.
BTW when we were at the range today, all of the guys unanimously enjoyed shooting my "terrible" Sigma, including one dyed-in-the-wool 1911 shooter and the other guy owns a PT92 with a pretty light SA trigger. The 1911 guy described the feel of the gun as "balanced". As in, "I really like the balance of this gun". Nobody mentioned the trigger.
I think in nearly ever case, fine motor skills are enhanced by a balanced amount of resistance to whatever it is you are doing. Now some piano players prefer a very stiff Yamaha action (not me). Some like the more momentum feel of an action more like a Steinway or a Kawai (include me in this camp). Some like the lighter feel of some other pianos. Key travel, overtravel, the feel of the key when it bottoms, how it can pivot and how quickly it moves back up are all keys to fine movement on the piano. If you spend hours a day playing on a Steinway then a Yamaha is going to feel very strange. So even when the range of resistance is in a pretty narrow range of grand piano actions, there can be quite a difference in fine-motor feel of each action.
BTW when we were at the range today, all of the guys unanimously enjoyed shooting my "terrible" Sigma, including one dyed-in-the-wool 1911 shooter and the other guy owns a PT92 with a pretty light SA trigger. The 1911 guy described the feel of the gun as "balanced". As in, "I really like the balance of this gun". Nobody mentioned the trigger.