> Another thing you learn as a pianist is that literally nothing matters for the sound except what happens at the point of contact between the hammer (and the damper) and the string. If you want to unravel piano timbre, you should worry about that.
Heh, my piano teacher was pretty convinced that you could control timbre independent of amplitude.
You sort of can! For example, by loudly humming at the string, supplying extra energy in some frequencies but not others. (Or, less facetiously, by playing other notes.)
Well you have a point there, lol. Half-pedalling is really lovely in that way, where the dampers are off just enough to let inter-string resonance fill the sound out without the notes getting smudged.
You definitely can affect timbre of a piano string by crafting how you hit the key, but you can't do it with juju that doesn't affect how forces are applied to the string.
Heh, my piano teacher was pretty convinced that you could control timbre independent of amplitude.