Good book on voicing...?

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Great post David.
I recognize a true artist and enjoy your talent for verbalizing it.

André Oorebeek


On 19-nov-04, at 18:41, David Andersen wrote:

>>   You could go through the archives looking for the discussions, but 
>> they
>> might be listed under any conceivable off-topic subject other than
>> "voicing."
>>   --David Nereson, RPT
>
>
> Great post, Dave. Voicing is both the Holy Grail and the most 
> confounding
> and subjective part of our craft; voicing performance or recording
> instruments is only for the truly fearless.
>
> You must consciously start to develop a tonal memory, a mental/aural
> "picture" of what your ideal is.
>
> You must listen---REALLY listen---to a piano from all different 
> positions:
> do not be afraid to put your head right in the thing, like a microphone
> "hears;" listen at 3 feet, then 6, then 12 feet away. Slide under the 
> piano
> and listen from there. If the room is big, listen from 20-40-60 feet 
> away.
>
> Note the impact of the sound on your body in the various positions. 
> Note the
> sometimes vast difference in the tone as heard from the player's 
> position
> and the listener's.
>
> Eric Schandall, a MAJOR voicing wizard, prepared the Steinway D played 
> by
> Fred Hersh(sp?) at the Nashville convention.  That sucker, which was
> "thrashed," according to Eric, prior to his 15 hours of work on the 
> thing,
> sounded absolutely gorgeous, limpid, and full-throated from every 
> position
> in that nasty hotel ballroom.  I heard it outside the closed door of 
> the
> ballroom, 160 feet away from the stage; from 75 feet away on the left 
> side
> of the room, and from 20 feet away, right off the tail of the piano.
> Then, when the crowd had moved on to the next room to get their sugar 
> and
> alcohol rush <g> I went up on the stage and played the thing. It 
> sounded
> like s**t from the player's position, all glassy and brittle. How 
> could it
> have sounded so luminous in the hall? Another huge lesson for me about 
> "low
> compression" hammers and the use of hardeners to achieve your goal in a
> performance.
>
>
> There is so much; voicing is like an ocean of knowledge; I feel like a 
> baby,
> just starting out, after 30 years in this craft. What a lucky man I am.
>
> David Andersen
>
>
>
>
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friendly greetings
from
André Oorebeek

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