<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hi everybody.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Me too, I wouldn't finish a voicing job without adressing the crown of the hammers.  For me, it is a way to voice the timbre, as opposed to voicing the volumes at different levels.  Indeed, the first crown shallow voicing doesn't last that long, but then I redo it after some playing, and I see that it holds quite well.  My problem has always been that this timbre voicing steals some power at all levels.  But then, I prefer a charming timbre than a loud banger.  While for timbre (and dynamics), I always start at tweeking a little the strike point, which gives more obvious results when the crown is still untouched and firm.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best regards.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stéphane Collin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=KeyKat88@aol.com href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 21, 2006 6:52 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Voicing and the Verboten area (Area 51?)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/14/2006 7:43:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:dlawson@davidlawsonspianos.com.au">dlawson@davidlawsonspianos.com.au</A> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>G'day Friends.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whilst voicing a new Kawai K-3 model the other day I got thinking about this age old question of needling the front of the hammer. We were always taught that it was a no no, right?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well there are times when you just have to, and this job I was doing required it. By going by the book, I would have achieved nothing, where as, a very tiny touch to the string indentation did the job I required, after I had carried out the 'correct' procedure, that is.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Am I getting frowns from all and sundry about this, or is it acceptable by some of you to go out of the square? My belief is that as long as you don't go crazy and damage the fibres of the hammer, you are doing no harm, just improving the tone.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Over to you.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Lawson.  Wangaratta.  Australia.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>  </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>