Re: Fast Trills or How fast are fast trills?

[Christian Kaernbach <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas G Brennan wrote:
> Judy, both performer ability and action recovery time will limit
> trills.

Dear Tom and Judy,

I guess the fastest trills can be performed on a clavichord. The action
of this instrument is so simple and the path for the key to go so much
shorter that even a beginner can play reasonably fast trills. The
experts will moan that the ideal of "historically informed performance"
(HIP, this is very much like PC = "political correct") is not to produce
the fastest trills ever heard of, but I will nevertheless ask the
clavichord mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clavichord/ and
let you know the result.

Best,
Christian Kaernbach