Hammer weight

[Vince Mrykalo]

> Thanks for the information. I don=92t know of any one selling hammers
> as light as your =93low tonal projection.=94

I think Ronson hammers will do it.

> It's also true that as the hammer mass is increased a point will be
> reach when the hammer contact with the string will last longer than the
> string's fundamental effectively damping the string.

I don't think that is as much of a variable as it appears.  Around c5
and above, there is nothing you can do to prevent the hammer, what
ever its weight, from dampening the fundamental by length of hammer
contact (see third lecture in "Five Lectures on The Acoustics of the
Piano"). Conversly, below C3, the hammer will always escape from the
string before it can dampen the fundamental by its contact.

> As far as achieving a powerful
> tone the Hammer=92s weight has to be designed to work with the string=
> scale,

There seems to be a fairly wide window here, as a variety of hammer
weights would achieve a good results.



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