---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment On 5-jan-04, at 21:02, Barbara Richmond wrote: > Hey Ric, > > So, would the good kind of heavy have anything to do with the magic of > voicing? I know you've got your numbers (75!), but I've encountered > pianists making comments about a piano's action feeling heavy, when=20 > what > they really wanted was the piano to be voiced brighter and more > responsive....and the opposite, a piano feeling too light because the > voicing was too bright. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you=20 > can have > perfect numbers (which you didn't before you worked on it), but the > pianist's perception of the tone can sometimes make those numbers a=20 > moot > point. Just a thought.......though the *Ric Brekne sound* is probably > remarkably consistent! ;-) > > > Barbara Richmond, RPT > somewhere near Peoria, IL > Of course Barbara, what you say is correct. A nice voicing will do wonders, no matter weight or even out of=20 tune-ness (hey, I made that up myself ! ). I remember for instance this Steinway B in the Amsterdam Conservatory.=20= It had received a new set of hammers and was in need of a second=20 voicing but I am so busy al the time etc etc.. you can guess the rest. One day I was working in another piano room, when a pianist came in=20 asking my assistance because he had dropped da pencil in da piano etc. So I took my screw driver and went with him to his piano and got out=20 the pencil. Just before I left I asked him about his piano and he said, "well it=20 needs a tuning, so if you have time..." So I played a few keys and I got embarrassed because the new hammers=20 were extremely loud. So of course I had to get back to the instrument I was working on and=20 later discovered that I had left my dear screw driver and I immediately=20= went back to get it. Nobody was at that time in the room where I had left my screw driver=20 and I thought : why not do a very fast voicing so that at least the=20 worst notes are better, so I quickly ran for my voicing tools and=20 started a very fast voicing. As time went by and nobody came into the room, I slowed down a little=20 and took my work a little more serious but I knew I actually made an=20 error by not tuning the instrument before voicing. Alas, there was no=20 time and I was able to voice the hammers so that the instrument had=20 improved a lot. One hour later, the pianist came into my room again and asked me=20 whether I had voiced his instrument and that he was so happy because it=20= was soo much better. Not a word about the instrument still being very much out of tune!=20 which indeed shows that a good voicing covers up for a lot of misery. (; >)) friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: foto krtje 2_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 26468 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bb/96/18/2e/fotokrtje2_2.jpg ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 www.concertpianoservice.nl ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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