?? Voice ??

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Richard and Barbara, You are correct. I am really thinking of quicker
changes in the hammer and home service, not the final voicing necessarily.
The tool that I have developed is at this page on my site.
http://mothergoosetools.com/other_tools/voicing_pliers.shtml
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: ?? Voice ??


> Barbara Richmond wrote:
>
> >Joe,
> >
> >Ok, I'll be brave.  Pliers (vise grips) were sort of popular some years
> >back, but it seems they are politically incorrect these days.  I learned
to
> >use them to soften up really hard shoulders (not lacquered ones!) to make
> >needling possible where sustain was lacking.  Using vise-grips would
cause
> >cupping on the shoulder and then next, one would needle enough to remove
the
> >cupping.  Worked great to open up the sound on certain pianos.  I won't
> >mention any names, but I learned it from factory tech reps--so somebody
> >thought it was OK back then.  ;-)   Aw heck, things go in and out of
> >fashion, except perhaps for orange shag carpeting and flocked wallpaper.
> >
> >
> >
> I think we are talking about two different levels of voicing here.  You
> have your <<standard do what it takes to make a so and so piano
> useable>> type of job... and you have your <<critical concert top level
> for the most discerning of pianists>>  type of situation.
>
> For the later we are not just talking about getting them soft enough...
> or insuring a bit of sustain.   It should be entirely unecessarry to
> have to resort to any draconian measures for these kinds of jobs.
> Whether you are using soft hammers that require hardner to acheive any
> semblence of tone, or tensioned hammers that need needling to bring out
> the tone.
>
>
> >As with any voicing method (and there are a mess of them), the secret is
to
> >proceed with caution, since hammers can get destroyed by overdoing
anything.
> >
> >
> >
> Yep.
>
> RicB
>
> >Barbara Richmond, RPT
> >Peoria, IL Chapter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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