Soft blows

[Avery Todd]

Jason,

>Clarifying: I was asking the former, and I took Andre's answer to be a reply
>to the former. I don't think there is any argument that hard blows
>themselves produce tones that are less pleasant, have exaggerated upper
>partials, etc. I was asking whether the hard blow, used purely as a means of
>"proving" the stability of the unison, will damage the unison somehow, even
>if the unison is afterwards played softly and is found not to have moved.
>Andre seemed to say that yes, the hard staccato blow actually does damage to
>the unison. I'm still scratching my head.

As far as I'm concerned, one HAS to give the note a "firm" blow to test the
stability. No matter how one tunes the unisons. JMHO!

I know I'd never want to tune for a Prokovief concerto without doing that! :-)

Avery