Stretch: was "Bloom"

[Jon Page]

I think the topic is straying from the question with tuning style.

Bloom would be the 'harmonic wash' precipitated from a note, the expansion 
of the sound from a strong presence
of partials produced by the hammer striking the string. A board with short 
sustain would not have a bloom, just decay.
A resilient hammer is needed as well. Bloom can be heard on one note, not 
necessarily a chord resounding in intervallic structures.

I haven't heard an Asian piano develop bloom, that whole round tone lifting 
as it is sustained; they have a more narrow, piercing tone.

Regards,

Jon Page

At 05:23 PM 3/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Well I agree with your humble opinion.  What I am finding is that the trend
>seems to favor the melodic intonation over the harmonic as of late.  The
>bloom we are talking about, and I think I agree with Joe on this, derives
>from a more harmonically based style of tuning and a tighter alignment of
>the partials.