[pianotech] Interested in having my Yamaha U1 voiced

[Gerald Groot]

Go and listen to a couple of the concert grands that he's worked on.  

 

Call the place where he supposedly works and ask them what they think of his
work and voicing jobs.

 

I would tune it ON the day I voiced it if it were me but that's my personal
preference.  

 

For starters, make sure that it is indeed in proper regulation before having
it voicing.  

 

Make sure the strings are leveled and seated on all bridges.  

 

Make sure that the hammers are mated to the strings and strings mated to the
hammers.  This makes a lot of difference just by itself in the tone of the
piano.  

 

Have it tuned and THEN voiced.  Voicing can take more than one setting to
complete it depending on what might be needed if anything.  

 

Only the technician can say for sure in looking at the piano what are
causing your overtones.  Voicing may reduce that if voiced properly but, the
technician will have to make sure that voicing will actually cure it and
that the cause is not something else.

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Tyler Ferrari
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:49 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Interested in having my Yamaha U1 voiced

 

Hi all,
 
my U1 is about 1.25 years old and it gets approx 1-2 hours of play each day.
It's been well regulated and I will tune it the day before it is voiced.
 
I was thinking of having the hammers needled to try reduce some of the
apparent overtones in the lower octaves. It is quite cumbersome when
recording.
 
a) How can I ensure the piano tech that I will hire can properly perform
this work? (he apparently does a lot of the tuning/voicing of local concert
grands and has been doing it for 25 years, or so I've been told.)
 
b) Is needling the recommend technique for my situation?
 
I just don't want to find that I'm unhappy with the result, and then have a
set of 'damaged' hammers (essentially)
 
Any other information would be helpful. 
 
-Tyler

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