<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Wim-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">What are the musical circumstances under which they report these "wide waves?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Are they playing pieces of music?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Chords? Big chords? Triads?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Octaves? Piles of octaves (C1-C2-C3-C4-etc)?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Or just single notes?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Fast? Slow? What volume levels?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@aol.com href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 10/1/2004 10:29:38 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] voicing a D</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>  <DIV>I need some help from some of you who have lots of voicing experience.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The D in our concert hall has a problem, at least as perceived by one of our piano faculty and a musicologist. They differ on where they hear the problem, but it seems to be the same sound they hear. They describe it as a wave length that is very wide, as opposed to a more focused wave. It is not so much a twangy sound and it lack a certain amount of depth. They are even leaning towards a soundboard problem. The piano is only 2 years old. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have lacquered and voiced the hammers last year, and this summer spent quite a bit of time leveling strings, making the sure the hammer strike point is level, etc. All the usual fine point. But I want to see what I can do to get more "focus" out of the hammer.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>