Robert Goodale wrote: > > > ...I attended some wonderful classes... one on > replacing vertical pin blocks with the ever entertaining > Andre Bolduc. As always I also caught up on the latest > voicing tricks and the like. > Rob, if I may add my $.02 to the above, a couple of classes struck me as breaking new ground and worthy of some elaboration. I attended Andre's class, even though I had never considered replacing an upright pin block before. My non-technician wife, who bought a brown name tag to help me cover all the interesting classes, joined me for this class and was moved to ask me, afterward, when are we going to buy an old upright that needs a pinblock? She wants to be the one to install the new block! Andre not only made it look easy but offered some convincing reasons to do this major surgery, on deserving candidates we can assume. He says he can do the whole job in 8 hours (without a chainsaw!) Indeed, he performed a good part of the job on a 1/4 section of an upright back within a 1-1/2 hour class. As to "the latest voicing tricks", were you including Roger Jolly's class on steam voicing? (Now that he's no longer a "closet steamer", I think we can talk about this openly <g>) I've done some experimenting along these heretical lines, myself, but Roger's methods are way beyond anything I've achieved and I was certainly impressed with the speed and quality of his results. Also was blown away by the demonstration of how much voicing affects inharmonicity. It's enough to make you think twice about tuning _before_ voicing. Jim B, thanks for answering some nagging questions I still had about knuckles. (Jim, did we ever resolve the grain direction on backchecks question? After some thought, I'm changing my answer to downward, to stop the hammer from bouncing up, yes?) And thanks to John, Dale, Laura, Evelyn and Allan for putting together a superb technical institute. Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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