---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 6/28/2002 11:47:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, pcpoulso@pacbell.net writes: > Subj:Re: Feeling the Hammers when playing > Date:6/28/2002 11:47:32 PM Pacific Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:pcpoulso@pacbell.net">pcpoulso@pacbell.net</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Hi Patrick This sounds like an excerpt from the Everday Voicing class that Bob Davis and I taught for a few years. I find this to still be a valid concept. I also remeber the pinky test that Bob suggests, which is that if you're unable to get enough tone/volumne in the melody notes with your right pinky finger it's a good indication the hammer and subsequent tone would benifit from being stiffer which effects its string contact time and therefore its voicing/tone. >>>>>Dale>>>> > > Hello All: I remember a discussion in a convention voicing class about the > phenomenon of "psychoacoustics." The contention of the teacher, whose name > escapes me at the moment, is that what we hear influences what we think we > are feeling as we play the piano. A very bright piano will be perceived by > many as being "easier" to play, because it seems louder and therefore > doesn't require as much effort from the pianist. Vice versa for a very > mellow piano, where the pianist may have to play harder to get the piano to > project. In both cases the pianist is not actually feeling the hammer > itself, but is reacting to the kind of tone the piano is producing and is > automatically and perhaps unconsciously adjusting his or her playing to > compensate for what the instrument is not giving. > Patrick Poulson, RPT > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1b/de/23/3a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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