hammer travel

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco at luther.edu
Tue Sep 19 12:44:27 MDT 2006


At 02:21 PM 9/19/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Frank-
>You've done a great job of putting it into words.
>
>2) Go to a section where the hammers are bored at an angle.  Space the 
>hammers as close together as possible.  Lift the middle hammer.  Aha?
>Ed Sutton


Ed,

And now you know why square piano hammers are shaped the way they are and 
why they are so much fun to space...

...and why some upright hammertails are tapered, etc, etc. etc.






Conrad Hoffsommer

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