<!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 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This is such an incredible topic. It will be very difficult to verify truth from fiction, but here's my take.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The mission of voicing would be to have a hammer that will compress until it gets the strings at their maximum deflection. At that nanosecond, the hammer should get away from the string by it's own stored energy (compressed felt). When it doesn't, it is using the string's energy to be pushed back from the strings. This would then decrease the max sound output of the strings and would dampen some part of the harmonic structure of the sound. But this is all a question of balance and equilibrium. Only our ears can tell us what's the most desirable sound a piano can produce.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Marcel Carey, RPT</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=312360018-02102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Sherbrooke, QC</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>