<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19019"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/18/2011 9:23:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, davidlovepianos@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>It may be related, however, if it turns out that both bloom and swell (to<BR>differentiate between the two) have something to do with the amount of<BR>potential energy in the soundboard system and the amount of energy input<BR>required to release it.  <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>These words are not interchangeable, I think, but are related. JD's question regarded overall "bloom" and what we have been diverging into is more in the individual string sustain curve--attack, "swell", sustain (decay). Or so it seems.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>