shock absorber

[BobDavis88 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/18/2008 2:38:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
oorebeek at planet.nl writes:

Only part of the hammer is the shock absorber, but it is the  most  important 
part of the hammer and the basis for a decent  voicing.

Andre - 
 
Would you mind elaborating? Maybe a difference in definition here, but  I 
think of a shock absorber (as on a car) as a mechanism to convert energy into  
heat (through hydraulic means). This would seem to me the antithesis of what we  
want, which is a loss-less means of storing energy and returning it to the  
string over a varying (and adjustable) period of time.
 
Bob Davis
 
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