[CAUT] touch & tone & tuning (was why does it feel better?)

[Rick Florence]

Alan,

But you DID do voicing work and you should not feel guilty about taking some
credit for it.  Altering strike weight can change voicing just as much as
hammer shaping, string leveling, needling and juicing.

I like the clip method you used, although I rarely use it as a permanent
solution.  It is, however, a great quick fix for touch and tone as well as a
very revealing method for hammer replacement decisions.

Enjoy the praises, an artist's rewards are few and far between.


Rick



on 8/30/06 9:40 AM, ReggaePass at aol.com at ReggaePass at aol.com wrote:



> So far, nothing unusual about all that.  What we thought was worth sharing was
> this: Although we hadn¹t told our community of pianists that we had done
> anything at all, unsolicited praises and adulation (what a breath of fresh
> air!) immediately started coming in about the great voicing work we had
> allegedly done.  Sometimes it is tempting to take credit for something you
> haven¹t done but are credited for anyway‹like when you clean the keys and it
> feels so much nicer to touch that someone thinks you performed major action
> work.  But in this instance, we decided to tell the truth and leveled with
> them about what we did with the clips.

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Rick Florence
Senior Piano Technician
Arizona State University, School of Music