Voicing has always been a difficult subject for me and I think many other technicians. Uppermost is the question, exactly what kind of tone are we trying to achieve? For those of us who have not had the benefit of working alongside a master concert prep technician we are left with exploring what is pleasing to us and our customers, who most often are happy to leave well enough alone. So when Dale Erwin, David Anderson, Ric Brenke, et al, use words on this list to describe a wonderful tonal palate of some hammer's sound, I'm sorta left wondering what that sound really is as I am not there experiencing it. Having said all that as way of introduction, I found myself watching American Idol last week. This is a show I have studiously avoided watching as I vigorously disagree with the premise that a true artist's career can only be launched by winning the fickle public's voting lottery. This year they seem to have some good candidates as finalists, and several of them are making use of a 9 foot Yamaha grand. Since I suspect many of you have watched the show, I'd be pleased if you would chime in on what you thought of this piano's sound. Myself, I do not care much for it. I find it too percussive and shallow, sounding more like a GH-1B than what it seems like a 9 footer should sound. I don't know if it is a hammer issue, a microphone issue, or a mixing issue. It might be instructive for us less experience voicers out here if some of you more experienced ones could tell us your opinions of this piano. Perhaps, if you are aware of other high profile pianos on TV shows, you could comment on those as well. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090330/1908de2f/attachment.html>
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