Soft blows

[Jenneetah]

At 10:28 PM +0200 10/29/04, Quentin Codevelle wrote:
>but Andre told us that the firm blow was exciting the higher partials.
>It seems that we can't tune "including" lower partials if we tune 
>with firm blows.
>Listening with soft blows won't change the facts that only the 
>higher partials have been excited during the tuning process!
>
>Am I wrong? Did I understand something wrong?

If I understood him correctly, high partials simply constituted noise 
and were a distraction from the business of tuning, to be avoided.