The Feel of Voice

[Isaac OLEG]

Feel also as an important part of the "tone" the way the checking
occurs. This in himself is very relative to the voicing, as a matter
of how the hammer rebound on the strings.

But indeed this is more felt on "hard tensioned hammers", as I see it
, traditional mellow tone hammers as I have seen are producing a
delayed feel in the finger, still there but later.

I've seen my first Chickering today, seem to be a very nice piano,
before it have been destroyed by the rebuilder. I wish I could see
some nice restored ones someday (was a very old begin of the century
2.20 M model or approx).


Best regards


Isaac OLEG

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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de gordon stelter
> Envoye : dimanche 23 mars 2003 18:46
> A : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: The Feel of Voice
>
>
> Maybe part of what a person who claims they can "feel"
> different voicings is experiencing is the
> hammershanks' re-contact with wippen at different
> velocities depending on hammer firmness. That, and
> their own varying exertion to achieve a desired volume
> level. These plus different, deeper, more esoteric
> stuff, as Sarah suggests. Or the flinching pain of
> cringing from an out of tune piano, which somehow
> affects one's sense of touch.
>      Thump
>
>
>
>  --- Sarah Fox <sarah@gendernet.org> wrote:
> > Hi Ric,
> >
> > > ..... For
> > > example the testing to see whether a ear muffed
> > person can identify
> > hardness
> > > or not by feel alone.
> >
> > FAIW, Bose has come out with some noise cancelling
> > headsets.  I don't know
> > how well they work or how much they cost, but I
> > think this is the first time
> > this technology is available on the consumer market.
> >
> > It would be particularly interesting to play around
> > with these headsets to
> > ask other questions about sound/experience
> > relationships.  Not only do the
> > headsets electronically cancel external
> > sounds/noises, but they are also, of
> > course, *headsets* in the more conventional sense.
> > So what would happen if
> > the sound from the piano were bandpass filtered to
> > mimic different hammer
> > hardnesses and were fed to the pianist through the
> > headsets.  The effect????
> > Here's another interesting one:  What if miniscule
> > audio delays were
> > introduced?  What would be the effect on the
> > pianist's perception of the
> > crispness of the action???  (There might not be any
> > effect, which would be
> > interesting in itself.)
> >
> > Just throwing out ideas...
> >
> > Peace,
> > Sarah
> >
> > PS Does anyone get my posts?  Nobody ever responds
> > to them, and I'm starting
> > to wonder if I'm being shunned for some reason.
> >
> >
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