At 06:13 PM 9/19/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Jon Page wrote: > > > Standard pre-voicing needle work. Hammers hung, needled in this fashion. > >Hi Jon... Andre is the only person I have ever run into with this order of >things. Almost everywhere I look we are told to needle first deep and low for >power, then middle and half deep for mf, then shallow and close to top for >pp. The only real exceptions I have ever seen to this norm before were a >class at Sherman and Clay given by Franz Mohr who more or less called BS on >the whole voicing world and said its all about the crown, and the steam / >water/alchohol variants. > >Are you saying that standard pre voicing is done by softening up the near >crown area and then working on deep needling after the hammers are in the >piano ? > >Interested: > >RicB On Abel Hammers, pre-voicing is deep needles parallel to the molding as per Wally's info sheet. Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@attbi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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