The Feel of Voice

[Richard Brekne]

gordon stelter wrote:

> 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.

I'm sure that would have to work into the thing as well. It seems obvious
that some composite of information, both aural and phsyical allows the
pianist a very real sensation about the hardness of the hammer. But just
how exactly to explain it all, and how much any particular thing
contributes is another matter.

> 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
>

I know voicers who actively employ what they believe is a feel for touch
as part of their voicing technique. They are after a certain feel to the
hammer they say. In my own voicing experience... I could swear I am more
and more getting a sense of what they mean.

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
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