I know all about your visit to Vancouver, brother. I had just had surgery on my left hand 2 days prior to the party, so I was missing in action, but I got a "contact high" from the attendees...next time, my friend. Such a pleasure to be your colleague.... DA On Feb 28, 2009, at 1:37 AM, andré oorebeek wrote: > Hi David A. > About half a year ago i was in Vancouver. I stayed with Jack > Houweling (howling jack, chuckle chuckle). > Jack is a very good friend and a very dedicated tech as well. > Besides having great fun and enjoying da good 'spirits' (we had > bloody good company btw as other very good friends were there too), > Jack offered to make a number of key dip block copies for some > Chinese colleagues across the pond. It was then that we discovered > that the original (yam) blocks were a hair thicker than 10mm!! > So for many many years i have actually made key dips of appr. 10,1 > to 10,2 mm. > No big deal and in fact I favor a very slight 'extra' provided it > does not go any deeper than that. > That was one of the reasons why i like Jurgen's crescendo front > punchens so much.. their beautiful firmness makes it possible for us > to do 'cutting edge' regulation, thereby improving the tone twofold. > A double whammy (isn't American Inkelish great?) > > > Friendly greetings > From > André Oorebeek > > Antoni van Leeuwenhoekweg 15 > 1401 VW Bussum > the Netherlands > > +31 652 388008 > +31 35 6975840 > > oorebeek at gmail.com > www.concertpianoservice.nl > > "where music is no harm can be" > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 28, 2009, at 8:41 AM, David Andersen <david at davidandersenpianos.com > > wrote: > >> Hi, Andre. This is 100% my procedure as well, except I use 10.2mm >> instead of 10mm---a teeny little difference. Otherwise, exact, >> exact, precise and complete custom-to-that-action regulation, and >> make the final feel of aftertouch with with slight hammerline >> variations. Andre is so lyrical, and exactly echoes my experience. >> David Andersen >> >> >> On Feb 27, 2009, at 1:12 PM, andré oorebeek wrote: >> >>> I would like to explain just a little about the way I make >>> aftertouch because I have the feeling that some here do not >>> understand what I am talking about. >>> Let me first make clear that it took me one whole week of practice >>> (at Yamaha) to make sure that my 10 mm key dip was a Yamaha 10 mm >>> key dip. >>> I think that grueling week has made me appreciate a 10 mm key dip. >>> For me that is the absolute basis of a regulation. >>> What follows (the outcome) depends on the physical abilities of >>> keyboard and action. >>> A very sharp and refined regulation (what I call a turbo >>> regulation) usually gives a big enough striking distance to ensure >>> raw power, and I always get what I want. >>> The key dip is therefor my basis, my anchor. If it is good, it is >>> good. I shall not touch it. >>> The aftertouch I make by indeed raising or lowering (usually the >>> latter) the hammer line, thereby following the string level. >>> To me, that means getting the utmost of power and energy. >>> I have learned it from, among others Takahara-san and it gives me >>> incredible pleasure because it always works and I can always >>> squeeze the last drop of power, followed by a nice tuning. >>> Voicing all that power is like working with jewels, the crown >>> jewels of the instrument. >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090228/9d37f85f/attachment.html>
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