Back again

[David Ilvedson]

Hi Richard,

Those really hard hammers are going sound like s**t as soon as the voicer leaves...;-]   

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:41:19 +0100
Subject: Re: Back again

>Jack Houweling wrote:

>>Welcome back Richard,
>>
>>I am interested in going to Japan in the future to take the same course.
>>
>>Sounds like you had a good time, hope you could tell us about it . Did you
>>learn any trade secrets.
>>
>>Jack Houweling
>>
>>  
>>
>Hey there Jack.  I'd recommend the Hamamatsu school to anyone, 
>regardless of your particular level of expertise. They will definatly 
>press you do work better and faster regardless of how much you know from 
>the get go. I'm going to write a bit more about the school in a later 
>post so I'll leave it there for now.  Trade secrets ??... grin.. 
>just     asked the usual questions about some of the more controversial 
>items that come up here from time to time, and I've posted on that in 
>the past. 

>One quick note tho... for home pianos the Japanese voice very very soft. 
>The idea that they like the light and bright sound is just not true at 
>all. They voice nearly to the point of becoming mushy.  And, for the 
>cheaper models they use very hard hammers that need very much needling 
>work to get the elasticity up.  The Yamaha folks are very much against 
>the use of laquer or softening agents. Indeed, they rather scoff at the 
>use of such.  That said, Watanabe Piano Supply Co. states that they sell 
>significant quantities of both hardning agents and softening agents to 
>domestic technicians. Still, the voicing instructors can very quickly 
>acheive just about any kind of a voice without more then a needling 
>tool, some emory cloth, and a string pull. Impressive.  Interesting to 
>note that they took such a traditional standpoint to the whole question tho.

>More later

>Cheers
>RicB
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