[pianotech] What is bloom,

[David Love]

Not just the distinctions between all those things but the qualities in the board that might establish some relationship between them. JD's bloom and swell may derive from some similar qualities in a given soundboard which the pluck test may or may not help detect. While I have my doubts about the reliability of the pluck test it may not be completely irrelevant if the goal is to try and determine whether there might be other qualities to boards that exhibit these characteristics we're looking into. Sometimes if you can't answer the question head on you need to change course temporarily so you can approach the problem from another angle. It's all good. 
 
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
(sent from bb)

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:34:28 
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] What is bloom,



In a message dated 3/18/2011 11:25:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
erwinspiano at aol.com writes:

Or am I  imagining it? 
You're imagining it. It's a conversation, not a moderated conference. If we 
 don't answer JD's question as completely and directly as you would have 
us, at  least we're hearing some good voices, and the related discussions 
relevant to a  range of interests. This isn't ask the expert. Lose the control 
impulse. The  distinctions between bloom and swell, and between chordal play, 
hammer strike,  and pluck are the beginnings of investigations into ways we 
hear. It's all  germane and useful in its own strange, uncontrolled 
conversational way. 
 
Paul




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