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[Avery]

Damn, Ric. I hate it when I totally agree with you!!!!!!! :-D

Avery

At 11:02 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:
>Hey there Owen.
>
>Looks like its my turn to back you up 100 %.  I agree totally.   The 
>idea that voicing should be left in the hands of pianists is simply 
>a catastrophic idea. Voicing and indeed all piano technical work 
>should be left up to qualified piano technicians.  Now dont get me 
>wrong... I know a fair few good to excellent pianists that have 
>taken the trade to heart and become fine technicians in their own 
>right.  But none of these would dream of taping nails to shanks with 
>masking tape, regulating dampers as suggested earlier, or suggest 
>that voicing should be done by pianists alone because of some 
>intricate response relationship between the pianist and the 
>instrument. In fact... I have to waggle my head a bit to try and 
>make sense of how that last claim can possibly fit together with the 
>first two myself... :)  I mean... with nails masked onto the shanks, 
>and dampers timed at the get go with all that entails... seems to me 
>the last thing any pianist has to worry about at that point is who 
>voices the piano... if yer gets my meanings.
>
>I appreciated your quote from Ed McMorrow.  Couldnt be more right on.
>
>What gets me in all this.... especially when it comes from a pianist 
>who has spent years mastering the art of piano playing... is the 
>turnaround that is made.  It takes every bit as long to create a 
>very fine concert piano tech as it ever did take to create a fine 
>concert pianist.  As in all things, all trades, all disciplines.... 
>one simply does not open a book, start dinking around on ones own 
>and become more then a fledgling plebe without at some time or 
>another seriously approach learning the subject matter. Piano 
>technical work is no exception.
>Cheers
>RicB
>
>
>    Hi again Stephen,
>
>    I guess that we are going to have to agree to disagree. I don't think
>    pianists should be messing with piano hammers. (It messes with my life).
>    Perhaps neither of us is any better or worse, just different, know
>    what I
>    mean? I'm a professional tech who likes to play the piano; you're a
>    pianist
>    who likes to tinker..It's funny that you should mention Fazioli,
>    because I
>    have used this trick with the card to slightly move the action over on a
>    Fazioli concert grand in a recording studio a few years ago. The
>    recording
>    engineer was very impressed by my remaining for the session, but I
>    really
>    just wanted to remove my card when the session was over, and not have
>    anybody else find it. As it turned out, I was the next technician, same
>    piano two days later in a large venue, and the piano sounded
>    wonderful, just
>    as it was.
>
>    While the piano to you as an artist is a 'beautiful ever changing
>    instrument' to most technicians, or at least to me, it's just a moving
>    target which has to be wrangled into shape to satisfy somebody
>    else's idea
>    of what makes them happy at that time , on that day, on that
>    piano.Oh well
>    perspective is everything isn't it? We see from where we sit!
>
>    Occasionally we see comments from people who obviously don't believe
>    in God.
>    I saw a bumper sticker recently that said "God doesn't believe in
>    Atheists"
>    Perspective IS everything.
>
>    Wait till you discover fitting hammers and leveling strings, you'll be
>    incorrigible.
>
>    Glad you don't live within my radar! (Just kidding)
>
>    Owen
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