Just got done doing one of my better voicing on the newer of our two Hamburg C's this weekend, and the comments I have recieved prompted me to take up this theme again with you all. I know there are good arguements to point out how difficult it is to explain how a pianist can "feel" the voice of the piano. But despite that I am more and more convinced that they do... and quite clearly do at that. The responses I got were all along the same lines. 1; everyone was very very pleased with the results, and 2; they all sited the reasons they were pleased in terms of how the piano felt. Not one exception. I asked one of our instructors first thing on Monday morning to check it out... it was to be ok for this weeks testing of prospective masters students. His immediate response was that it felt much more even, and that the touch was better. He said nothing about how it "sounded"... nor did his behaviour indicate that he was "listening" per say... he was paying attention to his fingers... you could see his awareness of what his fingertips were picking up. Three of our undergraduates that were up for masters studies stopped me today and said very similar things. One went so far as to ask me what on earth I had done to make the piano feel so much better... it was like a miracle she said. Again... none of them mentioned how it sounded, and this last student was even suprised to hear that the only thing I had done was voice the piano. Seems to me that the question about whether or not pianists "feel" the voice of a piano is rather answered in the affirmative, and the more interesting question of explaining how this is, just what it is this "feeling" is about should be taken up. Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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