Research on Piano Hammers

Dr. Dan Russell
Teaching Professor of Acoustics
Gradaute Program in Acoustics at Penn State

This page is a very early attempt (originally posted in 1997) to share some of my research that I did for my M.S. Thesis on the nonlinear behavior of piano hammers, and the effects of this nonlinearity on the hammer-string interaction. A more technical summary of my piano hammer research has been published in the European acoustics journal Acta Acustica.

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