In a message dated 7/27/1999 7:58:06 PM, Roger wrote: <<"Rough voice the instrument tone quality down and then do the fine tuning correction.">> Well golly Roger this is what I said......isn't it? Dealing with little pianners with rocks for hammers takes some extraordinary steps sometimes and this Wurlitzer y'all worked on sounds like it was a good candidate. From all the comments I heard about the improvement of the tone on the thingee you did good...............but I still say "rough" voicing is just that, "rough".................... <<"Having said that the very bright old Wurlitzer spinet had more improvement made to it's *musicality* by voicing than any standard tuning would have achieved.">> I don't know how you are using this term but tuning 'only' adresses string tensions, therefore pitch. Other factors such as voicing, in all of its various facets, addresses the color or tone of the thingee, be it spinet or grand. Hard hammers excite different partials than do softer hammers but they don't change the tension on a string. Exciting different partials will give the apparent effect of changing pitch but this is a perceptual thingee and not a reality. Is it?? However since we hear with, and through, perception and not an oscilloscope we need to adjust strings to our perception of them. Ron and I DID come to your class but by the time we got through arguing in the hallway about who was going to say what and when we would say it, the class was over......oh well there is always next time :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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