Scruffing -was - Over-Strike vs Under-Strike

Don pianotuna at accesscomm.ca
Sat Nov 25 19:03:10 MST 2006


Hi JD,

Perhaps "scrub"?

At 11:58 PM 11/25/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>At 6:30 pm -0500 25/11/06, Sid Blum wrote:
>
>>I've enjoying and learning from this discussion  but got curious and 
>>thought to share this:
>>
>>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scruff
>
>Yes.  I can find no definition of 'scruff' that remotely indicates 
>the phenomenon under discussion.  Perhaps they mean 'scuff', but even 
>that would be far-fetched.  What happens is that the nose of the 
>hammer strokes the string or slides along it, as happens by design, 
>and to a greater extent, in the Viennese grand action.
>
>JD
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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