My 1898 Henry F Miller has unique action , it's naturally very light. In fact the keys seem to almost fall away under your hands, especially compared with my Kawai MP6 digital which seems to have a bit more resistance after the let off point than before. Slight but it's there, where the Miller has the same rate all the way to the key bed. The Millers sound when tuned to A438 is very comparable to a Steinway M but has more power. It has a lot of mid range and mid to upper bass power, good mid upper treble power till the very high registers where the digital is actually better. If I really do a nice tuning it's a very nice sounding old piano, I'd have to spend a whole lot of money to get something better in that regard..Longer ago than you are old Chopin 2015 when I was seeing my piano teacher, she had a Steinway S. Beautiful instrument but the action was kind of tough/heavy. I weighted my keys to more closely match hers and have since taken about half that weight back out. As time went by though she let that piano go out of tune and the action got actually bad on it. At least that was at the end of my ten years or so that I took instructions from her.I played on a wood stained ( vs black) Chickering, about a 6 ft model in a night club once. That was a nice instrument, I felt right at home playing it. I played on about the same size satin black Mason and Hamlin and that was nice too. There are many nice grand piano out there. I don't know anything about today's Chinese made pianos except they appear to be too shiny looking.
Ohhh, hf miller! Those a great. I played on one in Russia this winter and it was pristine, despite it's age. I love a nice action. It makes the physical part of playing piano exciting and fun. The f miller I played was just heavy enough, with ivory keys that were very well taken care of and only the best pianists could play long enough on it to leave a imprint in the ivory. The piano made you work for your sound, but it was worth it. There was so much depth to that old piano, it was a special, magic piano that was like a mirror showing you what kind of pianist you are!My chickering is amazing. It is too rough for any sensitive, refined playing, unfortunately. The touch is not as sensitive as I'd like. It works better for most things than other new pianos, though. It is hard to play on these types of actions, but is worth it. It translates best from older piano to new piano. But idk, i can't control fast performances unless that's how fast I practice. So, i like to practice mostly on a yamaha that can take the beating! LolI like to abuse my yamaha...
Fingers don't have muscle.
Yes they do. If they they didn't have muscle you wouldn't be able to play piano, or play anything or move your fingers for that matter.
These people don't agree with you : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger
"Fingers do not contain muscles (other than arrector pili)." straight from wikipedia. So technically, there are muscles, the arrector pili.
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