[pianotech] What is bloom,

[David Love]

Either way is fine with me.
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com
(sent from bb)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:54:34 
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] What is bloom,

On 3/19/2011 12:25 PM, David Love wrote:
> Are we mixing up our terms?  It's gone back and forth and is becoming hard
> to keep track so for clarification I'll call the JD damper phenomenon
> "bloom" and "swell" the effect following hammer string contact.  Anyway,
> that's how I'll comment on it.

It was my understanding that, since we've always heard the hammer string 
contact thing called "bloom", we would, in an attempt to minimize the 
confusion that seems so inevitable, keep calling it bloom and call the 
damper lift phenomenon "swell".

Ron N