Clang

Bill Ballard yardbird@vermontel.net
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:32:25 -0400


At 7:30 PM -0700 10/17/03, David Love wrote:
>What in a soundboard, crown, bearing, etc., can cause a kind of clangy
>tone.  Decent sustain, but kind of a clang.  Old board, new softish
>hammers.

Usually, a loud attack signals a board  too soft (ie., lacking in the 
impedance necessary to tame the flow of energy from string to board). 
What does the crown look like?

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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