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I HAVE read Prof. Bryan's piano-player article in NATURE, and wish to congratulate him on seeing so early the wonderful capacity of the pneumatic player. I entirely agree with him. Long ago I have done work like his, though very crudely. Thus I always played with the feet, sitting on a pivoted swinging chair, and I constructed an arrangement in which, by means of two strings, I had some control of the touch. It was a partially successful attempt at most. I also fixed up a “dead stop” string operating a brake on the engine, by which pauses could be made at the proper places. I am sure Prof. Bryan's way is immensely superior.
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HEAVISIDE, O. Pianoforte Touch. Nature 91, 397 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091397a0
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