voiceing

[Tom Servinsky]

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Phil
One of the most painful lessons I had to live with involved a piano at =
my own church. A new music director was hired and within a few months a =
new Yamaha C6 was placed in the sanctuary. I had been doing the tuning =
all along and was asked to voice the piano due to a extremely weak tenor =
section.  Actually all-in-all,the piano sounded rather =
acceptable...evenly balanced with a fair amount of projection. What I =
did notice was a definite lack of sustain, something quite common with =
most voicing problems. I proceeded to do some shoulder voicing and =
succeeded in improving the sustain dramatically. For the most part the =
piano was starting have a nice dynamic range and good singing tone.
Well I got blasted (verbally) and before I new it wasn't the one tuning =
the piano again. For the past 2 years I have had to listen to this piano =
get brighter and brighter to the point it's only a loud piano with the =
"broken glass" syndrome. I've heard comments from the gentleman that the =
piano never sounded better.
  It troubles me when technicians who take their work seriously and go =
to great extremes to learn and understand the full understandings of the =
piano have to be undermined by those who have not a clue with what is =
actually being heard.
I have often remarked that if some of these pianists would have to be =
the one sitting in the audience and listenening to bright- tinny pianos =
they too would become annoyed and change their opinion.
Just my 2 cents
Tom Servinsky,RPT
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  From: Phil Bondi=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 5:00 PM
  Subject: Re: voiceing


  >Twenty minutes later they all came back _with their teacher_ to make =
sure I wasn't going to >voice the piano down.  Another reminder that =
while we have our opinions, the people who are >doing the playing have =
to have the final say.

  AMEN Dave..it's been my experiences to date that if the customer is =
asking, then there's reason for in-depth discussion..if YOU suggest that =
maybe we can 'do this or do that' to the voice, it is _usually_ met, =
again, my experiences, with a NO verdict,no matter what the shape of the =
hammers are, no matter how tactful you are, and no matter how =
professionally you approach the situation.
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  If someone reading this can tell me what their 'magic' method is for =
getting a piano from sounding like a bucket of broken glass to something =
resembling a piano, I'm listening. There's a few 'buckets' out here that =
could be better if they were 'properly maintained'.
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  AMEN,
  Phil
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