Evidence of overlacquered hammers

[Sarah Fox]

Hi Bernhard,

> Let me refine what you call elasticity. What is going into heat is defined
> as damping or resilince and that occurs in the hammers felt as a 
> hysteretic
> parameter function that means that the reaction force going into heat is
> offset in time compared to the reaction force of the elasticity. The real
> elasticity is the springieness that rejects the felt compression.

I'm not sure I understand what you've written.  (I do understand hysteresis, 
of course.)  Are you saying that a "springier" hammer exhibits less 
hysteresis?  Also, I thought of "resilience" as synonymous with 
"springiness."

> For everybody who is interested in trying out my scaling software that
> includes a hammer/string physical model of both the string and hammer, you
> may download a demo of the software at:
>
> http://www.piano-stopper.de/dl/Mensurix_5.0.10.msi

Cool!  I'll enjoy looking at this!  Thanks!  :-)

Peace,
Sarah