Hello Richard: It would be interesting to hear you chronicle Andre's procedure. David Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: March 11, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: Antares in Bergen > Hi there guys and gals. > > The rush this past month has settled down now and I get to re-join the > throng here for a while. I have had an unusual time of it with lots of > more then usual demanding work and tunings around western Norway, and we > here in Bergen have been preparing for a special little event that to my > knowledge has never happened here before. > > I have always wanted to get a closer look at some real down to earth > voicing, by someone who has had lots of factory experience, and a good > deal of no-BS concert work and so I got the University to aggree with > bringing in Andre' from Amsterdam up for a weekend to show myself and 4 > other western Norway techs what he can do. We bought a set of excellent > quality hammers and shanks from Renner... of Andre's personal choice and > preference, and our newest Norwegian RPT Nils Henrick Jansen and myself > did our best to install them. Nils taught me a method of hammer hanging > I had not experienced before, and I introduced him to basic Stanwood > principals of evening out and balancing the actions SW, FW and leverage. > > Andre came then to Bergen friday afternoon and was given the task of > voicing this brand new set of hammers on a little used and quite nice 10 > year old Steinway B from Hamburg. The action was pretty well regulated, > but not better then was necessary for the job at hand. Perfectly useable > as it was, but rough by any really fine regulation standards. In other > words, the perfect situation for this class of ours. > > Students and teachers were involved and were invited to play the piano > before and after Andre's work. On Saturday and Sunday we five were > privileged enough to watch a real master at work, and he was absolutely > fabulous at explaining his personal voicing philosophy, his knowledge > and experiences from factory work at S&S Hamburg, Yamaha Japan, > Bosendorfer, and Bechstein, and keeping us entertained at the same time > with plenty of humor and kidding around. And the result was just great. > We all got to watch this master job at work from the first stitch to the > final product in an intensive experience that we will all benefit from > in our further work. > > Thanks Andre, and the other western Norway techs involved for a > fantastic seminar experience. Lets hope this is the first of many such > events to come in the future. > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > > >
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