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>>11128250
My guess is you are approaching this from the angle of classical physics as if it were an ideal situation. So in that way, you must realize the hammer striking the string is not an elastic collision. There are going to be vibrations throughout the entire striking mechanism that reach your hand and back to the string for an amount of time. I would think the timbre of the note is probably dependent on the interaction of the key and the way you strike it with the hammer and the way it bounces off the string before during attack. You have more or less answered your own question. I'm not sure if that's correct, but it seems feasible that tone color and timber are effects of dampening. Good thread, OP.