---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Obviously it's more than just the hardness of the hammers, but I've seen some breakage from trying to get more sound than those hammers would give. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/5/02 at 1:45 PM Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote: In a message dated 4/5/02 11:29:12 AM Central Standard Time, dm.porritt@verizon.net writes: I think soft hammers break more strings than hard ones. Why? Because the pianist wants a certain sound for the fff climax of the piece. If the hammers are soft, he/she has to hit the keys harder. Still not enough sound, hit them harder yet. Bang! It happens all the time. dave I do agree that a pianist wants to hear a loud sound, and he will play hard, but I don't think it is necessarily the condition of the hammers. The same pianist who broke strings on his B, didn't break them on the D in the concert hall, either before the concert when he practiced, and during the concert. And he played the Rach 3, quite a loud and boisterous piece, to say the least. I think part of the problem is the playing technique. Some pianist have a technique that will cause strings to break, regardless whether they are soft or not. A very good jazz player in St. Louis had reputation of breaking strings. It was something in his attacking the notes that caused strings to break. A lot of fundamental churches break strings, because they constantly play hard. So I don't think it is all related to the condition of hammers. Wim _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/de/96/6e/f2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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