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In Reply to: John Challis harpsichords- the hubris of wrong-minded engineering posted by Bambi B on September 14, 2008 at 08:09:07:
The lack of sustain surprises me, given my experience with the hand bells I heard, but your comment about poor transmission of string vibration to the sound board would certainly account for that. Your "thumpblobby" is, I think, a perfect term for describing one aspect of the aluminium hand bell sound I heard: a dullness to the initial strike sound and a cloying, dull mellowness to the sustain. There was no "edge" to the sound of those bells. Pick the right music and you could make the performance work but you could never succeed with music that required clarity and incisiveness to the sound, and I think clarity and incisiveness are two of the characteristics of harpsichord sound that make it work better than piano for music actually written for the harpsichord.
Many thanks for the comments.
David Aiken
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