{"id":144,"date":"2012-04-10T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-08-23T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T03:22:28","slug":"worn-hammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/worn-hammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Worn Hammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures of a set of very worn hammers and some new ones. The worn ones are very grooved and you can see a hammer where the wooden molding is showing through where the felt is completely gone. The new hammers show a nice rounded shape.<\/p>\n<p>What sound do worn hammers make? When played loudly the flat surface of the hammer imparts a square shape into the string and brings out a lot of high harmonics which make for a bright or brittle sound. When played softly the grooves can actually make the hammer stick on the string for a short moment and make it dull sounding.<\/p>\n<p>Hammers can be resurfaced by filing off layers of the felt to restore a smooth striking surface and a rounded shape. However the hammers in this picture would not improve a lot from filing them because there is so little felt left. These hammers need to be replaced.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-144 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2751.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2751-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2752.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2752-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2763.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2763-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2764.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2764-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures of a set of very worn hammers and some new ones. The worn ones are very grooved and you can see a hammer where the wooden molding is showing through where the felt is completely gone. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/worn-hammers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-hammers","tag-voicing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berrypiano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}