Piano hammers strike strings at a point avoiding all low-partial nodes

Evidence

In practice, the hammer strike point is taken between 1/7 and 1/8 the distance of the string from the peg end. No low partial has a node in this region. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1840

Categorization

• CANDY: A neat, tweetable fact: the 1/7 to 1/8 strike point avoids every low partial node.