The Good kind of Heavy

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Barbra, Andre, and Avery.

I hear you on the voicing count. But in this case we are talking
touchweight. This is my "experiement" piano and I take care to check
pianists comments against differing conditions. The voicing as been
really mushy, and very hard and bright and different times before the
hammer change. I get comments about that as well for sure. But this
"good kind of heavyness" comment has come so often about this piano that
I've made sure we are talking about touchweight.

Only thing I can think of off hand is that if an action first is to feel
<<heavy>> AND <<good>> then it is a high ratio that first and formost
that will do the trick. It will be interesting to see what I get for
comments now that the hammer mass is reduced so much. I ended up with
the same Balance weights with assist magnets engaged, tho if they were
disengaged it would be quite a bit reduced compared to the origional set
of hammers.

Grin... as to the "Ric Brekne sound"... its getting more consistant for
sure... but the old set of hammers could never have been voiced well no
matter what you tried. 30 hours of use a week, for 10 years takes its
toll :)

Cheers
RicB

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 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 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 moot
> point.  Just a thought.......though the *Ric Brekne sound* is probably
> remarkably consistent!  ;-)
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> somewhere near Peoria, IL
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> To: "Newtonburg" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:26 AM
> Subject: The Good kind of Heavy
> 
> > Hi touchweight freaks. I wrote a few weeks ago about an August Forster
> > grand we have at the university that students just love to play on
> > because of its heavy touch.  I have heard time and time again that the
> > instrument feels heavy in "the good way". >
> 
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