"If you could choose between eating tacos every day, or being skinny for the rest of your life, would you choose hard or soft tacos?" This is the question someone just asked on another venue.
@Robusto don't sweat it. You know as good as I do that an fff piano note is basically just a p piano note but with everything else played ppp.
Who was it that was obsessed with pointing that out all the time? Rachmaninoff? Scriabin? Prokofieff? I'm getting those crazy russkies confused all the time.
@Cerberus I did talk to an orthopedist, but they said give it more time. Basically, she thought it had decent range of motion and would eventually heal better than if I had surgery, which could make it unusable for months.
Seriously, what are you talking about? What you're saying makes no sense at all. — Robusto10 secs ago
At least you have a digital instrument, so you can ramp up the volume by other means. It's a shitty workaround but an acoustic instrument wouldn't even give you that.
Also it ain't as shitty as it sounds on paper. Like, even at Horowitz level you can only differentiate between ten to twelve dynamic levels for an individual note. And most of those lie in the piano range. So I'm guessing for you just the top four or so are cut off now.
@Robusto probably the same pianist who likes to massage keys after having pressed them, thinking it somehow has an effect on anything.
If you let a total noob try to play a note at different volumes, they will manage 6 to 8 maybe. But even the most professional professional can only manage 10 to 12.
The rest is really down to what Prokofieff or Scriabin or whoever said.