[CAUT] pinning

[John Ross]

I was at a Roger Jolly class where he demonstrated the pinning, having a 
definite effect, so in my mind it is not a maybe, it is a definite effect on 
voicing.
Should that have been affect? :-)
There is a definite benefit to going to conventions. I don't have to take 
someone's word, I saw it demonstrated.
Hope you all make the effort.
I will be driving from Nova Scotia, to Anaheim and hope to see a lot of you 
there.
Any word on a 'list' meeting place and time yet?
John Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:46 PM
Subject: [CAUT] pinning


> Hi David
>
> I know there are several opinions about how pinning can affect tone and/or 
> if it does at all to begin with but my experience tells me that as solid a 
> pinning as is possible without compromising the ability of the action to 
> play and repeat quickly is a precept for good voicing and good projection. 
> Whether it is because the tighter pining causes a more solid path and 
> impact moment, and less dispersion of impact energy back through the 
> system or not... I really dont know.  I think like many such subjects, the 
> actual physics is something we do a lot of guessing at but really dont 
> <<know>> much about.  That said... the difference in sound and projection 
> is real enough and its one of the things I do very early on in any full 
> voicing/regulation beef up I do on an instrument. Like hammer mating and 
> unisons being in a level plane.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>    I have been having some interesting time with our Hamburg Steinway
>    here at Stanford.  This is 9 years old.   I filed the hammers for
>    the first time...I know, not heavy playing...but I repinned for the
>    2nd time in a year.  Went from 4 grams to 2 grams or so...I decided
>    to repin at 5 to 6 grams.   The tone is projecting (tone above the
>    strings) to beat the band...the combination of careful filing and
>    repinning has, imho, brought the piano back to it's new piano
>    sound...I'd appreciate comment on center pinning/tone and concert
>    instruments...
>
>
>
>    David Ilvedson, RPT
>
>    Pacifica, CA 94044
>