Evidence of overlacquered hammers

[Ron Nossaman]

>A tip for starting immediately with the physical modeling simulations:
>- After start, load one of the example scales in the file menu (Example 1
>Steinway grand piano model B, and example 2 Bösendorfer concert grand)
>- Now you are ready to start one of the simulations types contact
>simulation, loudness simulation, sound simulation (limited to the A-keys in
>the demo) and the strike point optimizer simulation (limited to one A-treble
>key)
>
>You can play around with the hammer parameters speed, head weight, shank
>weight, stiffness and damping in the settings menu.
>To flip between the graphs shown after the simulations and the hammer
>settings, flip the "Graph/Tab" switch.
>Contact simulation stops after the hammer is away from the string. Audio
>simulation proceeds until the string has vibrated for one second. Loudness
>simulation stops after 5 string oscillations.
>
>To hear the simulated audio files, a media player capable of playing audio
>files with different sampling rates is required, like microsofts media
>player version 8.
>
>It is possible to flip the scale lengths and diameters from metric to inch
>for easier use by inch users, but tension is always in Newton and measures
>on graphs in metric at this version.
>
>regards,
>
>Bernhard


Bernhard,
I don't particularly care about the hammer modeling or string simulations. 
I was curious about how the scaling program is set up. Since I don't intend 
to install the .NET package on my system until I have no other choice, I 
tried it on an older Win98 machine with no Internet connection that I use 
to try to keep my main system under control. If I can manage to find a new 
enough version of Internet Explorer that doesn't insist on an Internet 
connection to install, and that  the .NET installer will accept without 
itself insisting on an Internet connection, I may get to get a look at it, 
unless the program installer also insists on an Internet connection, in 
which case I won't.

Ron N