This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List: I am the contract tech at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. We = have a new 280 seat recital hall that has a very bright lively acoustic = and is easily overdriven by vocals and instrumentals. I'm having a = "dickens" of a time keeping the Yamaha CFIII (circa 1987) with Yamaha = hammers voiced down fairly mellow yet articulate to please the pianists. = They want lots of color with projection, but not too loud. The piano = gets used for solos and accompanying small ensembles and vocals. I took every voicing class and voicing tutoring in Chicago last summer = and the Little Red School House last fall, but lack the 30 years = experience demanded by the situation!! I can get the level of brightness where we like it for a short period of = time by high shoulder needling and a little sugarcoating on the crown. = But a week or two later, the felt packs down and it gets too bright = again. I've read in the archives that this piano has a fairly heavy SB = structure to compensate for the softer woods in the rim and needs a = fairly robust (w)hammer to get things moving. It seems to me that we = may have the wrong instrument and/or hammers for the application and = that if we want a delicate, articulate colorful piano, we oughta buy a = Steinway that sounds that way to begin with. Too bad the State of = Colorado doesn't win its own lottery.... Is anyone else successful in what I am trying to do and could share some = tips? I've thought about putting on a set of Isaac Cadenzas. Is this a = good idea? The other piano in the room for duets is a Yamaha C7 (circa = 2000). =20 Thanks for your ideas. Tom Merrill Grand Junction, CO (where minimum wage is a high paying job) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/84/80/b1/e0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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