So, which hammer characteristics do you say promote "fatness" and which characteristics inhibit "fatness"? Kent On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no>wrote: > > One other point. Adding lacquer, like deep shoulder needling most > definitely DOES have a significant impact on the sound. The affect is quite > a bit more subtle but an appropriate lower shoulder support is necessary for > both body and longevity of any voicing regardless of approach. Anyone who > does not hear this should spend some time either deep needling hard hammers > or heavily juicing only the lower shoulders on as many sets of hammers it > takes to start noticing the difference. Too little or too much support > limits the dynamic range of the hammers body or fatness. > Cheers > RicB > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081121/25f6f81b/attachment.html>
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