[CAUT] Voicing Steinway D

[Chris Solliday]

I guess its the "same sound" thing. Well I meant the same power and same
attack. I'd really rather not go into a voicing in all its aspects and
qualities. I hope this clarifies sufficiently. I was only trying to tell the
guy where the lacquer should go for the best bang for the buck. "Ala
Drasche," as Franz always calls it, is saturating with a thin solution then
building up with heavier, but that's not what is done to Ds at Steinway.
Building up the solids directly in the crown will yield the best result. Of
course then you start needling and ....
Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:09 AM
Subject: [CAUT] Voicing Steinway D


> Er... ja... but if you say you can cut completely away the shoulders and
> have no impact on sound on the one hand.... its kind of difficult to
> understand that needling these same shoulders instead of cutting them
> completely away will have an impact. Or what ?
>
> Perhaps a bit of clarification as to what you meant about cutting the
> shoulders away and having no impact on the sound is needed here ?
>
> Hope to see you guys over here next year btw !  Have gotten several
> mails from various corners on the subject... would be really cool me
> thinks !
>
> Cheers, and Happy New Year !
> RicB
>
>     one thing (lacquer) is for power or volume and the other (needles)
>     is for
>     other aspects of tone. call em what you like.
>     Chris