Damn, Ric. I hate it when I totally agree with you!!!!!!! :-D Avery At 11:02 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote: >Hey there Owen. > >Looks like its my turn to back you up 100 %. I agree totally. The >idea that voicing should be left in the hands of pianists is simply >a catastrophic idea. Voicing and indeed all piano technical work >should be left up to qualified piano technicians. Now dont get me >wrong... I know a fair few good to excellent pianists that have >taken the trade to heart and become fine technicians in their own >right. But none of these would dream of taping nails to shanks with >masking tape, regulating dampers as suggested earlier, or suggest >that voicing should be done by pianists alone because of some >intricate response relationship between the pianist and the >instrument. In fact... I have to waggle my head a bit to try and >make sense of how that last claim can possibly fit together with the >first two myself... :) I mean... with nails masked onto the shanks, >and dampers timed at the get go with all that entails... seems to me >the last thing any pianist has to worry about at that point is who >voices the piano... if yer gets my meanings. > >I appreciated your quote from Ed McMorrow. Couldnt be more right on. > >What gets me in all this.... especially when it comes from a pianist >who has spent years mastering the art of piano playing... is the >turnaround that is made. It takes every bit as long to create a >very fine concert piano tech as it ever did take to create a fine >concert pianist. As in all things, all trades, all disciplines.... >one simply does not open a book, start dinking around on ones own >and become more then a fledgling plebe without at some time or >another seriously approach learning the subject matter. Piano >technical work is no exception. >Cheers >RicB > > > Hi again Stephen, > > I guess that we are going to have to agree to disagree. I don't think > pianists should be messing with piano hammers. (It messes with my life). > Perhaps neither of us is any better or worse, just different, know > what I > mean? I'm a professional tech who likes to play the piano; you're a > pianist > who likes to tinker..It's funny that you should mention Fazioli, > because I > have used this trick with the card to slightly move the action over on a > Fazioli concert grand in a recording studio a few years ago. The > recording > engineer was very impressed by my remaining for the session, but I > really > just wanted to remove my card when the session was over, and not have > anybody else find it. As it turned out, I was the next technician, same > piano two days later in a large venue, and the piano sounded > wonderful, just > as it was. > > While the piano to you as an artist is a 'beautiful ever changing > instrument' to most technicians, or at least to me, it's just a moving > target which has to be wrangled into shape to satisfy somebody > else's idea > of what makes them happy at that time , on that day, on that > piano.Oh well > perspective is everything isn't it? We see from where we sit! > > Occasionally we see comments from people who obviously don't believe > in God. > I saw a bumper sticker recently that said "God doesn't believe in > Atheists" > Perspective IS everything. > > Wait till you discover fitting hammers and leveling strings, you'll be > incorrigible. > > Glad you don't live within my radar! (Just kidding) > > Owen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061201/042ecc21/attachment.html
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