Richard: It's interesting that you mention voicers employing such techniques. I hadn't remembered it until you said it, but when I was at Schimmel, there was a Japanese gentleman doing QC there, who would do the final voicing by touch. This was a technique he had used at Yamaha, and then at Schimmel. I found it very interesting at the time, and hadn't even thought of it through this discussion until you mentioned the same thing. Jonathan Finger RPT -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Brekne Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:14 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: The Feel of Voice 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. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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