Eric Schandall on Lacquer Voicing

[Barbara Richmond]

Speaking of voicing, this question occurred to me.

This past weekend I attended our local orchestra's concert.  On the program 
was a violin solo/with orchestra.  It was obvious to me that the orchestra 
was doing well at holding back so the violinist could be heard.  Why are 
pianos supposed to be heard above and beyond a large orchestra playing at 
full volume?  (I'm thinking of the Tchaikovsky #1 played last month.) 
Fortunately, this concert hall isn't my responsibility--a guy 40 miles away 
takes care of it.  The piano I take care of is in his town.  :-)

Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Brekne" <ricbrek@broadpark.no>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: Eric Schandall on Lacquer Voicing


> Hi folks
>
> Some of you know that Eric Schandall was one of the instructors at the 
> Nordic PTA convention in Stockholm last weekend.  His first class was all 
> about how to voice the New York Steinway and included quite abit about the 
> differences in basic approaches between needled hammers and hammers that 
> use lacquer.

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