Vice Grip voicing

[Avery Todd]

Sorry, Ross.

Voicing with vice-grips & multiple-needles type of tools are two very different
things!

Avery

At 01:48 PM 9/28/05, you wrote:
>Voicing with the vice-grips, i.e. multiple-needles, etc., is far too radical
>for any but the trashiest pianos.  One cannot produce subtle tonal changes
>with such a tool.  Voicing is about subtleties.
>When I'm voicing any world-class instrument, I'm very conscious of making
>subtle adjustments, and of the need to make them GENTLY.
>My tools are instruments, not bludgeons.  So is my technique.
>Ross White
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Barbara Richmond
>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:38 AM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: Re: Vice Grip voicing
>
>Hey Phil,
>
>Gee, you must be a lot more interesting than I am.   I can't say I've ever
>had anybody watch while I've done that kind of work.  Now I'm going to have
>to think about what I <would> say, without scaring them by blurting out
>something unsuitable like, "Man, if these hammers get squeezed in the wrong
>place, they're toast."   ;-)
>
>Barbara Richmond, RPT
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Phil Bondi" <phil@philbondi.com>
>To: "Newtonville" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:40 AM
>Subject: Vice Grip voicing
>
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > This is a technique that's been added to the ever-increasing arsenal of
> > voicing techniques..but it has been met with much concern and raised
> > eyebrows in the field..more than steam voicing.
> >
> > Here's the scenario:
> >
> > -Client's home with, usually, a newer piano. After tuning, I go through
> > the action with needles and vice grips. Needles will get a few questions,
> > but the vice grip method always, and I mean always, brings another arsenal
>
> > of questioning..almost as if they could do it themselves if they were
> > shown a thing or 2.
> >
> > For those of us who do alot of in-home service of new to newer pianos that
>
> > really require this technique, how do you answer the questions about the
> > viability and the longevity of the technique. Of course, after hearing the
>
> > difference, their brows come back down towards their eyes...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Phil Bondi(Fl)
> >
> >
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