<HTML><BODY><DIV style='font-family: "Verdana"; font-size: 10pt;'><DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=AOLMsgPart_3_a5d94e1f-267b-472f-a9c2-06a68577336d> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACI= NG: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT= -INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: = separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; a= pple-text-size-adjust: auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>  Andre</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>  So good to hear from you. I  enjoyed the= thorough post & technical descrptions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>  In Non technical terms I like</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>    frequency balancing to a specific= intent</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>    Increasing the sustain</FONT></DI= V> <DIV>   Increasing tonal variety</DIV> <DIV>  Adjusting the sizzle,clang, boom. Meaning high middle & lowe= r partials</DIV> <DIV>    Voicing is creating tonal power  * removing mos= t of the noise is my favorite</DIV> <DIV>  To bring out it's own unique voice.</DIV> <DIV>   Cheers</DIV> <DIV>   Dale Erwin</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>    </FONT></SPAN><BR></DIV></BLOCKQU= OTE></DIV> <DIV><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>specifi= c</I> kind of sound, totally different from piano B. which was built in a sl= ightly 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 st= one 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&nbsp= ;<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></D= IV> <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 examp= le.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Anyway, what I am trying to say, is that we will always be able to dist= inguish the personality, but this personality can be masked with quite a num= ber 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: 0px"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>To give a piano <I= >a voice</I> is one thing,</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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="WORD-SPACING: 0px; 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