Greetings, I would submit that color is the quality given to musical expression that makes use of the piano's ability to alter the tone with volume. Since we are more sensitive to higher frequencies, being able to bring out a melodic line with a slight change in volume accompanied by a slight increase in brilliance makes us more aware of the contrast between harmony and melody. An overly bright piano makes that quality difficult to produce, since there is little tonal contrast between mf and FF. Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.htmll >>Can anyone define "color" in piano tone? I've always been a bit baffled by the term because I'm not a good enough player to appreciate differences in "color." Is there any way of describing it in voicing terms that a piano technician is familiar with and could use to guide his work? In cases where I've heard comments that a particular piano doesn't have color, it usually means the action is too light and the tone much to bright. Is this what others have experienced? Darker pianos seem to have lots of color, as long as they aren't too dull/dead sounding. Richard West -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110223/2e805892/attachment.htm>
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