<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Bookman Old Style" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000000 size=3> <DIV>In a message dated 10/18/2008 2:38:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, oorebeek@planet.nl writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Only part of the hammer is the shock absorber, but it is the  most important part of the hammer and the basis for a decent voicing.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Andre - </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Would you mind elaborating? Maybe a difference in definition here, but I think of a shock absorber (as on a car) as a mechanism to convert energy into heat (through hydraulic means). This would seem to me the antithesis of what we want, which is a loss-less means of storing energy and returning it to the string over a varying (and adjustable) period of time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bob Davis</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="3529bd6842b97a321eab058b34fadc0"><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">New <b>MapQuest Local</b> shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. <a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211031713x1200669822/aol?redir=http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002">Try it out! </a></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>