Aw, Jurgen, you've got to be much more commercial than this. <G> How much is it? I guess we just call you to order? Or do you have online ordering? -- JF On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jurgen Goering < pianoforte at pianofortesupply.com> wrote: > There is little question that the pinnacle of our work as piano > technicians is voicing the instrument. Without voicing, the piano will have > a raw, unblended and uneven tone, with only a very truncated spectrum of > tone colors available to the artist. It is only through our work with > needles, files and other tools that the voice of the piano is brought out, > resulting in a tone with that magical combination of power and silk. > > Interestingly, voicing is a topic that has not really been well covered in > the technical literature. Although articles and brochures have been > written, there has been no book focussing entirely on this art and craft. > Until now. > > I certainly do not have the training and years of experience required to > write such a book. But I know someone who does: André Oorebeek. Not only > does he have the knowledge, he had also been working on a voicing manual for > a number of years. > > André handed me his manuscript last year and gave me brief instructions: > “Jurgen, I want you to turn this into a book.” > So I did. > > I proudly, and humbly, present to you: the book and the DVD: > “The Voice of the Piano – a technicians definitive guide to voicing” > by André Oorebeek > > > > > > Jurgen Goering > Piano Forte Supply > (250) 754-2440 > info at pianofortesupply.com > http://www.pianofortesupply.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090407/d0fc3997/attachment.html>
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