<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 29-nov-2005, at = 19:31, Stéphane Collin wrote:</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" = size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: = 14px;"><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE = type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: = separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: = 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT = face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: = Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Yahoo ! André = !</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" = size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: = 14px;"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: = Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Long time no = see.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><FONT = class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" = style="font-size: 14px;">Great to read you again = here.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>And you Stéphane!<BR><BLOCKQUOTE= type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: = separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: = 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT = class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" = style="font-size: 14px;"><FONT = face="Arial"></FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: = Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Now, if, yes, this = is all a matter of taste, as stated by others, what I would find = interesting is to sort out what is a matter of taste from what is = obviously faulty. Difficult, but certainly important to master. = Any ideas ?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" = style="font-size: 14px;"><FONT = face="Arial"></FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: = Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Best = regards.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" = style="font-size: 14px;"><FONT = face="Arial"></FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT = face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: = Arial; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Stéphane = Collin.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DI= V><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let me put it this = way (since you ask me) :</DIV><DIV>It is maybe better to simplify things = in the first place, because this whole thing about voicing is so = abstract.</DIV><DIV>We have a piano A, consisting of a soundboard, a = wooden frame, an iron frame, a bunch of strings, a keyboard and an = action.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">All this combined = will give a <I>specific</I> kind of sound, totally different from piano = B. which was built in a slightly different way.</SPAN></DIV><DIV>So = Piano A and B have different personalities and both these different = personalities may have different characters.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span">When we hit a string of piano A, with an = unvoiced hammer, the outcome will be <I>condensed</I> and the hardness = and shrillness predictable because of the high overtones being activated = by a stone hard hammer (assuming the unvoiced hammer is stone hard). = Nevertheless, it will already be possible to distinguish a trace of a = personality, hidden and masked by the 'voice', the = hammer.</SPAN></DIV><DIV>The same of course for piano B.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span">Now what we do with voicing the hammers, is = sort of playing with the possibilities the personality of the = piano <I>and</I> its hammer gives us.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span"><I>Playing</I> with the hammer is in an way = limited, because we have only a number of possibilities here = :</SPAN></DIV><DIV>we can leave it the way it is </DIV><DIV>we can = give it a small cushion</DIV><DIV>we can give it a big = cushion</DIV><DIV>we can give it a hard crown, combined with a small = cushion</DIV><DIV>we can give it a mellow crown, combined with a big = cushion</DIV><DIV>we can give it a limited battery voicing, combined = with the above</DIV><DIV>we can give it a huge battery voicing, combined = with the above</DIV><DIV>we can give it a tulip shape, combined with = the above</DIV><DIV>we can give it an egg shape, combined with the = above</DIV><DIV>we can give it a diamond shape, combined with the = above</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There = are more things we can do, but I think this is enough as an = example.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, what I am trying to = say, is that we will always be able to distinguish the personality, but = this personality can be masked with quite a number of = personae.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That's why I mentioned = before :</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV = style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">To give a piano = <I>a voice</I> is one thing,</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span">What <I>kind</I> <I>of voice</I> is = another.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>EAR</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; 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