At 6:30 pm -0500 25/11/06, Sid Blum wrote: >I've enjoying and learning from this discussion but got curious and >thought to share this: > >http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scruff Yes. I can find no definition of 'scruff' that remotely indicates the phenomenon under discussion. Perhaps they mean 'scuff', but even that would be far-fetched. What happens is that the nose of the hammer strokes the string or slides along it, as happens by design, and to a greater extent, in the Viennese grand action. JD
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