[pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Feb 14 09:44:13 PST 2009


Jon Page wrote:
>  > From some early guitar lessons, I think this is called "hammering on".
>  
> I'd have to see it live to believe it, especially on the passages he was 
> playing...
> with no discernable deflection of the neck. A quick light touch does not 
> produce
> a plucked or hammered effect nor the embellishments which do not correspond
> to finger movements.

> I'm not a guitarist but the sound I hear does not jive with the video.
> 
> But that live Inauguration Day Performance went without a glitch, din'it?

It's real, and not that unique.
Ron N



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