<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" = text=#000000> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of the most painful lessons I had = to live with involved a piano at my own church. A new music director was hired and = within a few months a new Yamaha C6 was placed in the sanctuary. I had been doing = the tuning all along and was asked to voice the piano due to a = extremely weak tenor section.  Actually all-in-all,the piano sounded rather acceptable...evenly balanced with a fair amount of projection. What I = did notice was a definite lack of sustain, something quite common with most voicing = problems. I proceeded to do some shoulder voicing and succeeded in = improving the sustain dramatically. For the most part the piano was starting have a = nice dynamic range and good singing tone.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well I got blasted (verbally) and = before I new it wasn't the one tuning the piano again. For the past 2 years I have had = to listen to this piano get brighter and brighter to the point it's only a loud = piano with the "broken glass" syndrome. I've heard comments from the gentleman that = the piano never sounded better.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>  It troubles me when technicians = who take their work seriously and go to great extremes to learn and = understand the full understandings of the piano have to be undermined by those who have = not a clue with what is actually being heard.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have often remarked that if some of = these pianists would have to be the one sitting in the audience and = listenening to bright- tinny pianos they too would become annoyed and change their opinion.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just my 2 cents</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom Servinsky,RPT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:tito@PhilBondi.com" title=tito@PhilBondi.com>Phil = Bondi</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 16, = 2002 5:00 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: voiceing</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>>Twenty minutes later they all came back _with their teacher_ = to make sure I wasn't going to >voice the piano down.  Another = reminder that while we have our opinions, the people who are >doing the playing = have to have the final say.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2>AMEN = Dave..it's been my experiences to date that if the customer is asking, then there's = reason for in-depth discussion..if YOU suggest that maybe we can 'do this or do = that' to the voice, it is _usually_ met, again, my experiences, with a NO = verdict,no matter what the shape of the hammers are, no matter how tactful you = are, and no matter how professionally you approach the = situation.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2>If someone = reading this can tell me what their 'magic' method is for getting a piano from = sounding like a bucket of broken glass to something resembling a piano, I'm = listening. There's a few 'buckets' out here that could be better if they were = 'properly maintained'.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2>AMEN,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2>Phil</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>