---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =20 =20 Andre, =20 Good to see you post here again! Your presence and wealth of information=20 was truly missed! =20 Dave S. =20 In a message dated 12/1/2005 7:55:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, =20 antares@euronet.nl writes: On 29-nov-2005, at 19:31, St=E9phane Collin wrote: Yahoo ! Andr=E9 ! =20 Long time no see. Great to read you again here. And you St=E9phane! Now, if, yes, this is all a matter of taste, as stated by others, what I=20 would find interesting is to sort out what is a matter of taste from what i= s=20 obviously faulty. Difficult, but certainly important to master. Any ideas= ? =20 Best regards. =20 St=E9phane Collin. Let me put it this way (since you ask me) : It is maybe better to simplify things in the first place, because this whol= e=20 thing about voicing is so abstract. We have a piano A, consisting of a soundboard, a wooden frame, an iron =20 frame, a bunch of strings, a keyboard and an action. All this combined will give a specific kind of sound, totally different fro= m=20 piano B. which was built in a slightly different way. So Piano A and B have different personalities and both these different =20 personalities may have different characters. When we hit a string of piano A, with an unvoiced hammer, the outcome will=20 be condensed and the hardness and shrillness predictable because of the hig= h=20 overtones being activated by a stone hard hammer (assuming the unvoiced ham= mer=20 is stone hard). Nevertheless, it will already be possible to distinguish a=20 trace of a personality, hidden and masked by the 'voice', the hammer. The same of course for piano B. Now what we do with voicing the hammers, is sort of playing with the=20 possibilities the personality of the piano and its hammer gives us. Playing with the hammer is in an way limited, because we have only a number= =20 of possibilities here : we can leave it the way it is=20 we can give it a small cushion we can give it a big cushion we can give it a hard crown, combined with a small cushion we can give it a mellow crown, combined with a big cushion we can give it a limited battery voicing, combined with the above we can give it a huge battery voicing, combined with the above we can give it a tulip shape, combined with the above we can give it an egg shape, combined with the above we can give it a diamond shape, combined with the above There are more things we can do, but I think this is enough as an example. Anyway, what I am trying to say, is that we will always be able to =20 distinguish the personality, but this personality can be masked with quite a= number of=20 personae. That's why I mentioned before : To give a piano a voice is one thing, What kind of voice is another. EAR friendly greetings =20 from Andr=E9 Oorebeek R. Vinkeleskade 1-3hg 1071 SN Amsterdam=20 The Netherlands tel/fax : 0031-20-6237357 gsm : 0031-645-492389 =20 Dave Stahl Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 _http://www.dstahlpiano.net/_ (http://www.dstahlpiano.net/)=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1c/55/dd/23/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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