Gerry, I foresee a branched discussion on this topic, so just in case I changed the subject. Yes, binder clips change the tone, but I don't think it is related to how it might mimic friction. They add mass, increasing the touch weight and also affecting the hammer contact time. The part of the shank where you clip them also flexes, contributing to the knock noise we hear when a note is played, so it can't help but affect the tone quality to have a metal clip fastened there. Lots of things change the tone! But shank flanges that are too loose will still sound bad (or maybe even worse) if binder clips are in place. Don Mannino From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of G Cousins Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:10 AM To: CAUT Subject: Re: [CAUT] F..riction Don, Wouldn't the comment also be supported with the practice of putting binder clips on the shanks? I don't remember exactly whom was the purveyor of this idea but it was discussed in Vegas. Never tried it but the concept was to add weight to the shanks using small binder clips. It wouldn't add friction per-se but I think theorotically the added weight would mimic added friction. It was reported that this definately changed tonality of an instrument. Anyone else experiment in this procedure and have substantative findings? (pro or con) Gerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101201/cefeaeb5/attachment.htm>
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