Re: Fast Trills or How fast are fast trills?

[Christian Kaernbach <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With a harp, the task is more complicated. You need not only to tap the
strings but to pluck them. A flute might be good (as long as the
build-up of the tone does not take to long), or if it is simply for the
matter of motor speed: a table. [A clavichord action comes close to
that.]

susan allen wrote:
> 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.....