<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 11/19/04 6:47:36 A= M Pacific Standard Time, davidlovepianos@comcast.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARG= IN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">As Dave N. said there ar= en’t many books.  Baldassin has a pamphlet that you can get fro= m Renner on the Renner Blue but the information is sparse.  My suggesti= on would be to attend one of Mannino’s classes on voicing the Kawai = hammer.  He’s giving one in Sacramento in February.  You = do have to listen to a little bit of Kawai hype (sorry Don) but it’s= a very useful and informative class that will tell you quite a bit about vo= icing that particular hammer and is applicable to many other hammers.  = Often he does it in tandem with one of Kawai’s master techs so it ca= n be an opportunity to watch and listen to them work as well.  Brooks a= lso gives a class for his Abels but I find his techniques are best used only= on his own hammers.  Anyway, the conventions are useful for this type = of thing.   </BLOCKQUOTE> David, and David, I will be at the Sacto convention and look forward to Don's class, which= will be especially helpful since I work on many Kawai pianos. Texts do seem to be sparse.  Some of the texts I HAVE seen are a bi= t circumspect in dealing with aforementioned specific needling areas, angles= , and depths, and they often disagree with each other, not to mention with t= he more up-to-date things I read on this list and elsewhere. Thanks for your responses, Dave Stahl</HTML>