<HTML>In a message dated 6/25/2002 2:41:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:Feeling the Hammers Date:6/25/2002 2:41:59 PM Pacific Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no">richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no</A> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet          Hey Ri             Say what!!!, I thought every body knew this. Voicing by feel is kind of like parking by ear! screeeeeecchhh crunch.     Really though I've felt alot of hammers but not in the voicing process but in judging preliminary stiffness of a new set before installation. It's an aquired taste.</BLOCKQUOTE>   I'll try it ands see if it's habit forming <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">>>>>>Dale>......</BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> List Some while ago I had a discussion with one of the piano majors here at the conservatory about voicing and touch. It was his stance that the voicing of the instrument was not just something you could hear, but you could feel. I was in the process of voicing a new set of hammers and I remember being quite suprised at how much you actually could "feel" the change in hammer hardness.  I personally have begun to rely somewhat on this feel as part of my voicing technique.  However since that encounter with the pianist I have run into several technicians who do not believe that hammer hardness can be sensed directly by the fingers at the key.  I would be very curious to hear from as many of you as possible what your views on this. RicB </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>