Moment of Inertia of grand action parts.

[Ron Nossaman]

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>>No... ya think???
>
>Nah, just repeating what's been said on this list before.

Oh... then never mind.


>>I wasn't aware that I had a choice as to whether or not the hammer 
>>rebounded off of the string. Where might I buy a hammer that doesn't?
>
>Actually John Hartman was the one who wanted to make sure that we got the 
>kind which did.

Yea, I know. It just struck me as a firm grasp of the obvious sort of 
thing, as well as unavoidable. As a matter of degree though, rather than an 
absolute, the rate at which a hammer rebounds from the string is both of 
considerable importance, and not easily defined or specified. I expect 
that's more like what John meant.


> From a tonal point of view we also don't want the hammer to deliver
>>all of its energy to the string. It has to have enough energy left to 
>>rebound from the string.
>
>What I can do for you, Ron, is to sell you a set of hammershanks which 
>will keep the hammers up at the string. Vintage Steinway shanks from the 
>classic era (when Steinways were Steinways). Some sort of weird grease in 
>the bushings.
>
>Mr. Bill

But then that's not the hammers' fault, is it? Assigning the appropriate 
credit or blame to the proper parts is what I took this discussion to be 
about. If not, I'll just blame everything on the casters and be done with 
it. I won't even ask why you saved a set of goo-frozen take-out shanks and 
flanges from Steinway's "golden" era - whenever that was presumed or 
proclaimed to be.

Ron N

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