Narrow vs. Stretch

[Bill Pillmore]

If there are only a few hammers that don't produce this "Bloom" how do
you voice them?
Bill

Jon Page wrote:
> Bloom in not a product of tuning, it is the production of the tonal
> spectrum by the
> hammer. Hammers need to be voiced properly to produce this unfolding of tone.
> A dead or poor sounding board will not allow its development.
> 
> The best I can describe bloom is: Strike a note and allow it to sustain. If
> the tone
> simply decays, there is no bloom. If the sound ethereally lifts and expands
> (partials)
> and wafts through the air as the tone slowly decays then you have bloom.
> e