Evidence of overlacquered hammers

[Richard Brekne]

Hi folks... back and catching up on old news.. read several nice posts 
and am very happy to see such a good discussion.

I agree entirely with Bernhards below.  And a quick re read of the first 
two-three posts that David Love wrote on the subject confirm that. Which 
is what prompted my original reaction.

So far... nothing at all that has been written goes to justify any claim 
that a given soundboard condition dictates in any sense of the word 
either / or any particular approach to hammering the piano. Neither with 
regard to the original claim that went to lacquered vs tension hammers, 
nor with regard to hammer weight.  Secondly... there is still no real 
factual material presented to back up the claim that the (healthy) 
soundboard can be driven into overdrive and distortion.

Since these were the origin for first jaunt of this thread... I'd 
personally like to see it cleared up.

Cheers
RicB


Bernhard Stopper wrote:
> Ron wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> no, the point was that David said that it´s possible by taking a heavier
> hammer to produce more energy.
> and that´s not true when all other parameters remain unchanged.
> 
> regards
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
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