Evidence of overlacquered hammers

[Ron Nossaman]

>But for me no. The hammer and string is the first component pair that has to
>match to achieve the kind of the spectrum to be produced.
>The soundboard/string components is the second pair that must match to
>achieve the kind of the filtered spectrum to be produced.

And what David said, and what I said is that no choice of hammer that you 
can make will get more out of the system than the soundboard has to give.


>But there is no direct hammer/soundboard relation without taking attention
>of the first hammer/string relation.

Add all the details you like. That doesn't make what we said any less true.

Ron N