>>....it seems that alot of the concert pianists that come here, especially those from the >>NY/Russian/and Liszt traditions use the una-corda pedal alot and use >>various shift positions for tone colors...... A few years back I was subing for a Russian techncian who was maintaining a Baldwin B for a NYC off-Bdwy show. The piano was an integral part of the show. When I firtst met the artist, she asked if I could voice the mid section tenor and treble hammers. When I checked the una-corda I discovered that the keyframe was riding on the unacorda lever so I released the "suspension" and checked the voicing and found that tone was very weak. I used my standard mixture of pyralin & acetone, voiced up the sections in time for the show. When I next met the artist she complained that "fumes" were coming out the piano during her performance and that it affected her performance. When I explained that is how I voice-up the hammers she said no more of that nonsense and told me that her Real Piano Technician who was from Russia "voiced" the piano by adjusting the lifter rod on the una-corda! The short of it was that the hammers were completely needled out, shot. The other technician, whom I never did get to talk with, kept using the una-corda shift to "voice" the piano to the artists approval, and that was how I learned the "quick and dirty voicing" technique. Mike Bingham PTG Associate Disklavier/Piano Disc Technician Toms River, NJ 71672.467@compuserve.com
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