Re: Fast Trills or How fast are fast trills? (Christian Kaernbach )

Subject: Re: Fast Trills or How fast are fast trills?
From:    Christian Kaernbach  <chris(at)PSYCHOLOGIE.UNI-LEIPZIG.DE>
Date:    Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:48:07 +0100

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.....