Leslie W Bartlett wrote: > Of course, one can always build a "bonker", or Jim Bryant, is it a > "boinker". Can't remember which term got me into so much hot water, or > was it hot grease. I use mine less now than used to, but it has several > uses, which merits keeping it handy, IMHO> > les bartlett Boinker, schmoinker. I used to use a brass "finger" (tipped with a healthy piece of leather so as to not harm the keys) until I started getting some ferocious pain on the top of my pounding arm. The "finger" was rather heavy which, for the most part, meant I didn't have to exert my arms/elbows/shoulders while giving the piano a good thrashing. But all of the pounding in the world won't do a bit of good if hammer technique (a.k.a. "setting the pins) isn't there. I was pretty non-plussed to watch someone *gently* muddy up some unisons that I'd just pounded the begeebers out of. Persistent repetition. Nothing louder than a forte blow. If your unison will stand up to 6-8 of those stabs (fairly quick succession but not rapid-fire), chances are Chopin and Listz won't make a quiet, reflective encore sound wobbly. -- Ron Torrella, RPT Ypsilanti, MI ----------------- FreeDSL Information! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~torrella/InfoPlease/freedsl.html ----------------- Assume nothing.....or assume the position.
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