Alanfraserpiano
Thanks, Eric!
About the Horowitz Steinway, NO it is DEFINITELY NOT just a question of harder hammers!!! There are a thousand thing that go into regulating an action to make it that responsive. And then there is the instrument itself, which is a complete gem, an entity unto itself...
Having said that, to answer your other question, yes I have indeed been able to bring these discoveries to bear on more standard instruments and to get results that, if they don't match the Horowitz Steinway, at least echo it. Even that echo is something of a miracle....
As for Kemal's touch, yes I have developed it further but it's kind of a long story... I think you're going to have to wait for my next book - if I put all that material on the Forum, I won't have anything to publish! But if you could couch your enquiry in a specific question maybe that would jog my brain to come up with something for here...
Onward and upward!
AFF