Try http://www.thevoiceofthepiano.com/. Patrick On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/c15f73af/attachment.html>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC