[CAUT] Voicing Steinway D

[Horace Greeley]

At 03:32 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote:
>I guess its the "same sound" thing. Well I meant the same power and same
>attack. I'd really rather not go into a voicing in all its aspects and
>qualities. I hope this clarifies sufficiently. I was only trying to tell the
>guy where the lacquer should go for the best bang for the buck. "Ala
>Drasche," as Franz always calls it, is saturating with a thin solution then
>building up with heavier, but that's not what is done to Ds at Steinway.
>Building up the solids directly in the crown will yield the best result. Of
>course then you start needling and ....

....and, all of this depends on what kind of sound you want, to begin with.

Best.

Horace


>Chris
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
>To: <caut at ptg.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:09 AM
>Subject: [CAUT] Voicing Steinway D
>
>
> > Er... ja... but if you say you can cut completely away the shoulders and
> > have no impact on sound on the one hand.... its kind of difficult to
> > understand that needling these same shoulders instead of cutting them
> > completely away will have an impact. Or what ?
> >
> > Perhaps a bit of clarification as to what you meant about cutting the
> > shoulders away and having no impact on the sound is needed here ?
> >
> > Hope to see you guys over here next year btw !  Have gotten several
> > mails from various corners on the subject... would be really cool me
> > thinks !
> >
> > Cheers, and Happy New Year !
> > RicB
> >
> >     one thing (lacquer) is for power or volume and the other (needles)
> >     is for
> >     other aspects of tone. call em what you like.
> >     Chris