<!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>Not just the distinctions between all those things but the qualities in the board that might establish some relationship between them. JD's bloom and swell may derive from some similar qualities in a given soundboard which the pluck test may or may not help detect. While I have my doubts about the reliability of the pluck test it may not be completely irrelevant if the goal is to try and determine whether there might be other qualities to boards that exhibit these characteristics we're looking into. Sometimes if you can't answer the question head on you need to change course temporarily so you can approach the problem from another angle. It's all good. <br/> <p>David Love<br/>www.davidlovepianos.com<br/>(sent from bb)</p><hr/><div><b>From: </b> PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com </div><div><b>Sender: </b> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org </div><div><b>Date: </b>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:34:28 -0400 (EDT)</div><div><b>To: </b><pianotech@ptg.org></div><div><b>ReplyTo: </b> pianotech@ptg.org </div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [pianotech] What is bloom,</div><div><br/></div><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/18/2011 11:25:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, erwinspiano@aol.com 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=Tahoma>Or am I imagining it? </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>You're imagining it. It's a conversation, not a moderated conference. If we don't answer JD's question as completely and directly as you would have us, at least we're hearing some good voices, and the related discussions relevant to a range of interests. This isn't ask the expert. Lose the control impulse. The distinctions between bloom and swell, and between chordal play, hammer strike, and pluck are the beginnings of investigations into ways we hear. It's all germane and useful in its own strange, uncontrolled conversational way. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Paul</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Tahoma><BR> <BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>