[pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...

[David Nereson]

Re: [pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...There's an instrument called the Chapman stick, which is played similarly --- you "hammer on" the notes by slapping the strings onto the fingerboard.  It has electric pickups and the force of hammering is plenty to cause the strings to vibrate.  
      --David Nereson, RPT

  --- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Page 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...


  > From some early guitar lessons, I think this is called "hammering on".

  I'd have to see it live to believe it, especially on the passages he was playing...
  with no discernable deflection of the neck. A quick light touch does not produce
  a plucked or hammered effect nor the embellishments which do not correspond
  to finger movements.


  I'm not a guitarist but the sound I hear does not jive with the video.


  But that live Inauguration Day Performance went without a glitch, din'it?
-- 

  Regards,

  Jon Page


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