Feeling the Hammers

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In a message dated 6/25/2002 2:41:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, richard.brekne
@grieg.uib.no writes:


> Subj:Feeling the Hammers 
> Date:6/25/2002 2:41:59 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no">richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no</A>
> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
> Sent from the Internet 
> 
>          Hey Ri  
>            Say what!!!, I thought every body knew this. Voicing by feel is 
> kind of like parking by ear! screeeeeecchhh crunch.
>     Really though I've felt alot of hammers but not in the voicing process 
> but in judging preliminary stiffness of a new set before installation. It's 
> an aquired taste.

  I'll try it ands see if it's habit forming

> >>>>>Dale>......

> 
> List
> 
> Some while ago I had a discussion with one of the piano majors here at the
> conservatory about voicing and touch. It was his stance that the voicing of 
> the
> instrument was not just something you could hear, but you could feel. I was 
> in
> the process of voicing a new set of hammers and I remember being quite 
> suprised
> at how much you actually could "feel" the change in hammer hardness.  I
> personally have begun to rely somewhat on this feel as part of my voicing
> technique.  However since that encounter with the pianist I have run into
> several technicians who do not believe that hammer hardness can be sensed
> directly by the fingers at the key.  
> 
> I would be very curious to hear from as many of you as possible what your 
> views
> on this.
> 
> RicB
> 


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