If there are only a few hammers that don't produce this "Bloom" how do you voice them? Bill Jon Page wrote: > Bloom in not a product of tuning, it is the production of the tonal > spectrum by the > hammer. Hammers need to be voiced properly to produce this unfolding of tone. > A dead or poor sounding board will not allow its development. > > The best I can describe bloom is: Strike a note and allow it to sustain. If > the tone > simply decays, there is no bloom. If the sound ethereally lifts and expands > (partials) > and wafts through the air as the tone slowly decays then you have bloom. > e
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