Lacquer fight! Lacquer fight!

[Richard Brekne]

Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/8/2004 4:58:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> oleg-i@noos.fr writes:
>
>     So we can have a hammer that have a lot of tension, a very rich
>     rebound and a lively tone at all levels, but still miss some basic
>     power for sustaining tone and carry the timbre at forte levels. 
>     Battery needling gives that, densifing the bottom of the shoulder
>     and the felt under the strike point, but  it does not add lot of
>     tension, so it is of course better to begin with a hammer having
>     enough.
>
> *     >> Really, Isaac , with all due respect, What you have is 
> mostly felt in compression not much tension. Battery needling is 
> releasing very densified compressed felt which in turn allows the felt 
>  more spring which does drive the fundamental.  I tried in my last 
> post to comminicate what tension is but I guess I used the wrong words 
> or something . I thought I was clear.*
>  

But this is simply not what battery needling does.  If it just released 
compaction.. then the hammer would simply puff out at the point of 
needling... and nothing else... you probably wouldnt even hear any 
change.  Further battery needling does not simply result in driving the 
fundemental more.  That is consistant with needling down not needling 
up.  It opens the sound and produces a stronger fuller sound spectrum. 
Yet it lacks the effect one would get of simply adding a drop or two of 
hardner to the crown.... i.e. just getting brighter, a bit louder... but 
no increase in body.