voiceing

[Erwinspiano@AOL.COM]

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
In a message dated 2/17/2002 3:26:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tompiano@gate.net writes:


> Subj:Re: voiceing
> Date:2/17/2002 3:26:40 AM Pacific Standard Time
> From:    tompiano@gate.net (Tom Servinsky)
> Sender:    owner-pianotech@ptg.org
> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>
> To:    pianotech@ptg.org
> 
>   Tom


 Be patient Tom . A soon as the piaanerr starts breaking strings the phone 
will ring.
  Ohh I feel your pain brother. Been there done that And have givin up on 
church pianos except ours. Your director could be hard of hearing or deaf in 
one ear. If not he will be.
    >>>>Dale



> 
> 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
> 



---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/66/da/8d/9e/attachment.htm

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--