Let me see if I got this part straight... To try a bit of rather primitive and overly simple ascci diagraming.... you are saying that the arcs of the hammer crown and string with capo / agraffe as its "center" in a grand would be closely congruent... as in ( ( Where as the situation in the upright would be more like ( ) .... grin.. or am I off on the proverbial bunny path again ? RicB ranjacob@umich.edu wrote: > > ...... then it will be seen that the > "contact-arc" of the (standard modern) grand is always "approximately > congruent with" the arc that is travelled by the contacted string segment > around the capo/agraffe termination as its center, while the "contact-arc" > of the (standard modern) vertical > can never be even approximately "congruent with" the corresponding > arc travelled by the contacted string segment of the vertical's string: the > latter two arcs are always "opposed to" one another. > > What this geometric fact might *mean* in terms of transient or > continuant tone production, is, of course, the design question. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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