Re: Fast Trills or How fast are fast trills?

[susan allen <susie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if the "fastest trills" might be performed on a harp, since
there is no mediating mechanism at all, no action, not a thing
between the fingers and the strings.....

Susan Allen

> 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