Holes in hammers

[Carl Meyer]

Oh! my God!  I have this horrible vision of all that pent up, fossilized
sound either oozing or spurting from the hammers(depending how long the
pressure has been building up)  Then dripping all over the backchecks,
damper lifter felts and slung onto the strings and dampers.

You'd never get all the sound back into the hammers without poking even
larger holes.  Even an air hose or vacuum cleaned wouldn't get it out.

In severe cases, you'd just have to take the piano out in the back yard and
shoot it.

The sound would probably stink anyway.

Carl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Holes in hammers


> >Do you know why we pack the felt after needling ? it is because , if we
> >don't do that, the sound escape by the holes !
> >
> >Isaac
>
>
> And on really hard hammers, the holes will whistle with a hard blow! With
> different sized holes, you can get them to whistle at a different pitches
> to reinforce desirable partials. Tuned voicing, as it were, or a flute
duplex.
>
> Now the question no one has asked. I held back as long as I could.
>
> How does one split nine holes symmetrically above and below the crown of
> the hammer? Would that be 4.5 holes on either side?
>
> Just trying to make sure I understand the concept.
>
>
> Ron N